But competent observers believe he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen. Jackson lists as the primary need -- `` a clearer understanding of where our vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them ''.

The Jackson report will provide some of the political support Mr. Rusk will need if he is to get rid of department personnel engaged, as Sen. Jackson puts it, `` in work that does not really need doing ''.

This is true also of a painter like Jackson Pollock.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

Jackson Pollock is the artist best known for starting that revolution.

* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

Their former house is preserved as the Andrew Jackson Centre and is open to the public.

There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.

Belle and Sebastian are often compared with acts such as The Smiths, The members of the band see this as a landmark event, with Stevie Jackson saying, " This is the biggest thrill of my entire life ".

Listen to Me: Buddy Holly is being produced by Peter Asher and includes contributions from Stevie Nicks, The Fray, Cobra Starship, Jeff Lynne, Train's Pat Monahan, Patrick Stump, Jackson Browne, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, Imelda May, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson and more.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

The support of Sharpton and other Black religious / political leaders ( e. g. Harvard's Peter Gomes, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King ) is especially helpful for Black gays and lesbians who are negotiating the challenges of being gay in black communities.

Concord is a village in Jackson County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

Opinion remains divided on which cut is superior ; Peter Jackson and his writing partners, the main cast and WETA as a whole, regard the Extended Edition as the superior cut, while detractors believe such scenes were left out for a reason.

The city is known for its large steel mills, and for being the birthplace of the The Jackson 5 music group.

For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( also known as the Mormons or Latter Day Saints ), the Garden of Eden is believed to have been located in present-day Jackson County, Missouri.

* Hera is featured in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus book series, more notably in in the first book of the latter series, as a goddess with a certain hatred to all demigods, especially Jason and Thalia Grace.

It is possible this is the source of the ( untrue ) legend that Jackson believed in a Flat Earth, and was consequently the only United States president to do so.

* In 2011, IKEA and its Swedwood affiliate came under criticism for its treatment of workers at a U. S. factory in Danville, Virginia and its decision to hire the law firm Jackson Lewis, which is often employed by companies to counter labor demands, to consult with IKEA on attempts to form a union at Danville.

Justices Frankfurter and Jackson dissented: `` One State may cherish formalities more than another, one State may be more responsive than another to procedural reforms.

Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

Somers decided to trade Jackson midway through the 1915 season for two players and $ 31, 500, one of the largest sums paid for a player at the time.

In 1941, Trumbo wrote a novel The Remarkable Andrew, in which, in one scene, the ghost of Andrew Jackson appears in order to caution the United States not to get involved in the war.

Coleman was cast in the role of Arnold Jackson in the television sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes, portraying one of two young black brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in Manhattan.

Monroe sent in General Andrew Jackson who pushed the Seminole Indians south, executed two British merchants who were supplying weapons, deposed one governor and named another, and left an American garrison in occupation.

It is famous for its Cascade Manor House and Cascade Falls ( Jackson, Michigan ), which is one of the largest man-made waterfalls in the world.

It then flows out of Jackson County and into Calhoun County before it goes through the town of Albion where the North Branch connects with the South Branch and they form to be one river.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation against the doctrine of nullification, stating: " I consider … the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, which is to the city's east.

He became one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and his tour of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support for Jackson from Crawford.

Van Buren County is one of several counties named after Jackson or members of his cabinet for this reason.

* In the Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan Athena is the mother of Annabeth Chase, one of the main characters in both series and has appeared in a few of the books.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

In 1909, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, an astronomer with a reputation as an egocentric contrarian, opined " that there is certainly one, most likely two and possibly three planets beyond Neptune ".

He assembles six men from his company ( Horvath, Mellish, Reiben, Jackson, Wade, and Caparzo ), plus one detailed from the 29th Infantry Division ( Upham ), a clerk who speaks fluent French and German, to accomplish the task.

Discovering that Sha ' uri has some experience with drawn symbols, Jackson indicates to her that he wants to see more signs, and with her help leaves the city and learns from hieroglyphs in the people's hidden catacombs how the Egyptian god Ra was actually an alien lifeform who had abandoned his dying world to seek a cure for his own mortality, and had finally come to earth, where he " possessed " the body of one human youth like a parasite, and enslaved humans with his advanced technology.

Ra states that he will kill Jackson and everyone who has seen him unless Jackson kills the rest of the team to show the villagers that Ra is their one true god.

Jackson started the performance by being catapulted on stage and then simply standing frozen in one of his famous ' Dangerous ' poses.