The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

With the neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed Mr. Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely to be waylaid by a veto.

U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.

the West may or not remain satisfied with the kind of neutralism that U Thant represents.

If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.

Near Q, both curves can be represented by analytic functions of U.

In a neighborhood of Q the difference between these functions is also a single-valued, analytic function of U.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

Lincoln's assassination was the first assassination of a U. S. president and sent the nation into mourning.

Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U. S. presidents.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U. S. territory in the west.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.

He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.

Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.

The world's smallest known vertebrate, Paedophryne amauensis, sitting on a Dime ( United States coin ) | U. S. dime, 17. 91mm, for scale

The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized ( or incorporated ) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U. S. on January 3, 1959.

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* U. S. House Committee on Agriculture – Glossary of agricultural terms, programs and laws

* Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, U. S. law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability

* Anti-Deficiency Act, U. S. law that prohibits the federal government from incurring debts not authorized by Congress

In the U. S. federal court system, criminal defendants must file a notice of appeal within 10 days of the entry of either the judgment or the order being appealed, or the right to appeal is forfeited.

Many U. S. jurisdictions title their appellate court a court of appeal or court of appeals.

GPS was created and realized by the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) and was originally run with 24 satellites.

The operators complied with Postel's instructions, thus dividing control of Internet naming between the non-government operators with IANA and the 4 remaining U. S. Government roots at NASA, DoD, and BRL with NSI.

The military specifications designate that the DU used by the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) contain less than 0. 3 % < sup > 235 </ sup > U ( AEPI, 1995 ).

In actuality, DoD uses only DU that contains approximately 0. 2 % < sup > 235 </ sup > U ( AEPI, 1995 ).

By 1988, the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) issued Instruction 4630. 8 ( reissued in 1992, 2002, 2004 ) stating its policy that “ all forces for joint and combined operations be supported through compatible, interoperable, and integrated Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence systems.

NIPRNET ( Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network ) ( formerly called the Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network ) is used to exchange unclassified but sensitive information between " internal " users as well as providing military personnel access to the Internet, although certain social networking websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and some Google Apps used to be restricted by the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ).

The system is being used extensively by the U. S. Department of Defense through the DoD gateway in Hawaii.

An investigation was begun into the DoD contract after a protest by Globalstar, to the U. S. General Accounting Office that no tender was provided.

* CTCPEC – The Canadian standard followed from the US DoD standard, but avoided several problems and was used jointly by evaluators from both the U. S. and Canada.

It is the reference frame used by the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) and is defined by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ) ( formerly the Defense Mapping Agency, then the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ).

This provision was highly favored by the Pentagon which authorized the Department of Defense ( DoD ) to allow individuals who, on or after August 1, 2009, have served at least 6 years in the Armed Forces and who agree to serve at least another 4 years in the U. S. Armed Forces to transfer unused entitlement to their surviving spouse.

Laird paid special attention to two important interdepartmental bodies: the Washington Special Action Group ( WSAG ), composed of senior Defense, State, and CIA officials, which gathered information necessary for presidential decisions on the crisis use of U. S. military forces ; and the Defense Program Review Committee ( DPRC ), which brought together representatives from many agencies, including DoD, State, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget, to analyze defense budget issues as a basis for advising the president, placing, as Laird commented, " national security needs in proper relationship to non-defense requirements.

In September 1996 an investigative panel set up by Perry recommended vigorous measures to deter, prevent, or mitigate the effects of future terrorist acts against U. S. personnel overseas, and further, that a single DoD element have responsibility for force protection.

* Washington Headquarters Services, a U. S. DoD Field Activity, located at The Pentagon

U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) Elements

The domain was administered by the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ), however the department contracted the domain maintenance to SRI International.

Efforts of the U. S. Army, Navy and Air Force were combined leading to the DoD World Geodetic System 1960 ( WGS 60 ).

DMA's " birth certificate ", DoD Directive 5105. 40, resulted from a formerly classified Presidential directive, " Organization and Management of the U. S. Foreign Intelligence Community " ( November 5, 1971 ), which directed the consolidation of mapping functions previously dispersed among the military services.

His official responsibilities included the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, United States Department of Defense ( DoD ) relations with foreign countries, and DoD's role in U. S. Government interagency policymaking.

ERAAM + would retain the ERAAM dual-pulse motor but fitted to a front end incorporating all the features of Phase 3 of the U. S. Department of Defense's ( DoD ) AMRAAM Pre-Planned Product Improvement ( P3I ) programme, which was planned out to 2015.

Boeing also brought vast experience of dealing with the U. S. DoD, essential in any future attempts to get Meteor on U. S. aircraft.

The U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) notes that cyberspace has emerged as a national-level concern through several recent events of geo-strategic significance.