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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.

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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.
Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U. S. states combined .< ref >
* 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.

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In 1948 Alan Courtney — New York disk jockey and co-composer of the popular song, " Joltin ' Joe Dimaggio " — began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida ( WGBS ) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR the " Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum " flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U. S. and Cuba.
Their 2001 self-titled album Sugar Ray produced another hit with " When It's Over ", although it failed to reach the same level of success as their previous singles, still reaching No. 13 in the U. S. Other singles such as " Answer the Phone " and " Under the Sun " gained some popularity as well, despite the inefficiency of a billboard spot.
In 2011, Rebbie embarked on the " Pick Up The Phone Tour ," which is dedicated to teens who have committed suicide all over the U. S.
U. S. Rep. Fred Upton ( R-Kalamazoo, Michigan ), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, expressed concern over the easy access to personal mobile phone records on the Internet during Wednesday's E & C Committee hearing on " Phone Records For Sale: Why Aren't Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?
" Phone Booth " was released to radio as the Primitive Radio Gods ' first single, and was remarkably successful in both the UK and U. S. markets.

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* Ambient Devices, a U. S. company
However, response to the company's products at the CP / M-82 show in San Francisco showed that a U. S. company would be needed to reach the American market.
In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.
An agreement with Western Union required that U. S. company to route messages in a specified ratio of 3: 1, with three telegraphic messages transmitted to Canadian National for every message transmitted to Canadian Pacific.
It is owned by Air France and the U. S. Finance company AIG.
Tel ( now part of Telus ), in which a U. S. company ( GTE ) had a substantial stake ; Bell Canada, which served Ontario, most of Quebec, and part of the Northwest Territories ; and operations in Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and northern B. C.
The company is a subsidiary of the U. S. conglomerate Textron.
Thus, in Wilson v. U. S. ( 1911 ), he asserted that corporate officers could not resist a subpoena for company records by invoking the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.
He said: " I wanted to call my company General, but there's so many Generals in the U. S .: General Electric, General Motors.
Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.
The U. S. Government Bonds, which constituted a lien upon the railroads and all their fixtures, were repaid in full ( and with interest ) by the company as and when they became due.
By 1959, the company had dealers across the U. S. and began selling the 310 ( known as Bluebird domestically ).
* A Kompanie ( company ) in every Ortsgruppe ( roughly equivalent to a U. S. Congressional district )
* In August 2007, Georgia handed over the management rights of the state-owned Georgian Railway company to the U. K .- based company Parkfield Investment for 89 years.
Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.
The Guatemalan government had to fight the pressure because although U. S. had recognized, in words, that Guatemala had the right to conduct their own politics and business, U. S. representatives also claimed that they had to interfere because UFCo was their company that had brought in a lot of profit and harming the interests of that company was harming the U. S. economy.
Although authority over the region was nominally shared by the United States and Britain through the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, company policy, enforced via Chief Factor John McLoughlin of the company's Columbia District, was to discourage U. S. settlement of the territory.
The Canadian and U. S. holdings were transferred to of NRDC Equity Partners ' portfolio company, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, as of the fall of 2008.
As of November 2009, the company was offering 100 Mbit / s service for $ 99HK ( about $ 13 U. S .) per month.

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