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.

* Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau ( 1908 ), the first comparative law journal in the U. S

As reported in the journal Science, testing of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA by Warren Johnson and Stephen O ' Brien of the U. S. National Cancer Institute demonstrated that ancient cats evolved into eight main lineages that diverged in the course of at least 10 migrations ( in both directions ) from continent to continent via the Bering land bridge and Isthmus of Panama, with the Panthera genus being the oldest and the Felis genus being the youngest.

A study of international health care spending levels in the year 2000, published in the health policy journal Health Affairs, found that while the U. S. spends more on health care than other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the use of health care services in the U. S. is below the OECD median by most measures.

Currently the Commonwealth War Graves Commission includes Newfoundland ’ s casualties with Canada and the U. K. An academic journal published in Newfoundland has given the details of Newfoundland ’ s military casualties.

In the November 21, 2002, edition of the journal Nature, Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario reported on his study of U. S. early warning satellite records for the proceeding 8 years.

Princeton University research fellow Dr. Jonathan Monten, in his 2005 International Security journal article " The Roots of the Bush Doctrine: Power, Nationalism, and Democracy Promotion in U. S. Strategy ", attributed the Bush administration's activist democracy promotion to two main factors: the expansion of material capabilities, and the presence of a nationalist domestic ideology.

His second book, " Of Mule and Man ," is a journal of his 5-week, 9, 000-mile drive around the U. S. to promote the paperback edition of his first book.

In 1938, the old formalism began to give way with Justice Stone's opinion in Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue, 303 U. S. 250, which examined New Mexico's franchise tax, measured by gross receipts, as applied to receipts from out-of-state advertisers in a journal produced by taxpayers in New Mexico but circulated both inside and outside the State.

Probably due to competition from other media, the number of daily newspapers in the U. S. has declined over the past half-century, according to Editor & Publisher, the trade journal of American newspapers.

According to the journal DesignIntelligence, which annually publishes " America's Best Architecture and Design Schools ," the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas was named the best in the Midwest and ranked 6th among all undergraduate architecture programs in the U. S in 2007.

He was also a manager of the 1907-founded Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association, whose Annual Bulletin was the first comparative law journal in the U. S.

In the United States, the disease was first observed at Haskell County, Kansas, in January 1918, prompting local doctor Loring Miner to warn the U. S. Public Health Service's academic journal.

Root also served as vice president of the American Peace Society, which publishes World Affairs, the oldest U. S. journal on international relations.

MPRI provided ( along with a French Foreign Legion organized training camp in Šepurine near Zadar ) mainly training for commissioned officers, but a 1999 study published in the journal of the U. S. Army War College concluded that the company had no significant intelligence activities or professional influence on senior Croatian military strategy and tactics.

In 1934, after the CLA merged with the AWP to form the U. S. Workers Party, Shachtman began editing the party's new theoretical journal, New International.

Von Kármán wrote of Qian, “ At the age of 36, he was an undisputed genius whose work was providing an enormous impetus to advances in high-speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion .” The American journal Aviation Week & Space Technology would name Qian its Person of the Year in 2007, and comment on his interrogation of von Braun, " No one then knew that the father of the future U. S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program.

He has written about 200 journal articles and holds 28 U. S. patents on acoustics, drop and bubble dynamics, collision and coalescence of drops, charged drop dynamics, containerless science, and encapsulation of living cells.

The September 4, 1870 journal entry of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, the leader of the U. S. Army escort during the expedition, describes the lake:

A science and technology election guide for the 2004 U. S. presidential election was profiled in the journal Science.

PRA publishes a journal, The Public Eye, three times a year, which reports on specific and current movements or trends within the U. S. political Right, and also produces special reports, past examples of which include " Calculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay Movement Serves the Right's Attacks on Democracy ," authored by former PRA research analyst, Surina Khan ," which details attacks on gays and lesbians, and " Decades of Distortion ," which alleged scapegoating of welfare recipients.

From 1907 to 1915, Berkman was editor of Goldman's journal Mother Earth, and under his stewardship it became the leading anarchist publication in the U. S. Editing the magazine was a revitalizing experience for Berkman ; his relationship with Goldman faltered, however, and he had an affair with a fifteen-year-old anarchist named Becky Edelsohn.

Important articles include Werkheft04 ( ISBN 3-923222-03-3 ), and by Thilo Hilpert in the Frankfurt Lounge, first published in the Japanese architectural journal A + U, Tokyo.

It included some of his most prominent journal articles from the Journal of Communication ( e. g. “ The Internet and U. S. Communication Policymaking in Historical and Critical Perspective ”) as well as original articles that appeared in more obscure journals or book anthologies.