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.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Examples of common law being replaced by statute or codified rule in the United States include criminal law ( since 1812, U. S. courts have held that criminal law must be embodied in statute if the public is to have fair notice ), commercial law ( the Uniform Commercial Code in the early 1960s ) and procedure ( the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the 1930s and the Federal Rules of Evidence in the 1970s ).

The Embassy counsels U. S. firms through its Country Commercial Guide and informally via meetings with business persons planning to invest or already investing in the Dominican Republic.

The Department of State maintains a Country Commercial Guide for U. S. businesses seeking detailed information on business opportunities in El Salvador.

Commercial use of hydrofoils in the U. S. first appeared in 1961 when two commuter vessels were commissioned by Harry Gale Nye, Jr .' s North American Hydrofoils to service the route from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to the financial district of Lower Manhattan.

Commercial fuel synthesis companies suggest they can produce fuel for less than petroleum fuels when oil costs more than $ 55 per barrel .< ref > The U. S. Navy estimates that shipboard production of jet fuel from nuclear power would cost about $ 6 per gallon.

However this appointment was never confirmed by the U. S. State Department ; John C. Williams was merely recognized as " Commercial Agent of the United States ".

Prior to 1993, the U. S. Army employed the Commercial Heavy Equipment Transporter ( C-HET ), which consists of either the M746 or the M911 truck tractor, with the M747 semitrailer.

Commercial machine shops, especially those that do certain categories of work ( military or commercial aerospace, nuclear power industry, and others ), are required by various standards organizations ( such as ISO, ANSI, ASME, ASTM, SAE, AIA, the U. S. military, and others ) to calibrate micrometers and other gauges on a schedule ( often annually ), to affix a label to each gauge that gives it an ID number and a calibration expiration date, to keep a record of all the gauges by ID number, and to specify in inspection reports which gauge was used for a particular measurement.

From 1870 to 1890, the U. S. government leased them to the Alaska Commercial Company.

The eight RFC wartime subsidiaries are Metals Reserve Company, Rubber Reserve Company, Defense Plant Corporation, Defense Supplies Corporation, War Damage Corporation, U. S. Commercial Company, Rubber Development Corporation, Petroleum Reserve Corporation.

Patients are typically advised to sit “ within several yards ” of the device and glance occasionally ( rather than stare ) at it .< sup > p20 </ sup > Commercial light boxes are not regulated by U. S. law and, as such, OTs should recommend medical consultation and advise caution when selecting and using them.

Efforts have been made to create a unified body of commercial law in the United States ; the most successful of these attempts has resulted in the general adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code, which has been adopted in all 50 states ( with some modification by state legislatures ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. territories.

In 1870, the now-American owned Alaska Commercial Company ( formerly the Russian-American Company ) was awarded a 20-year sealing lease by the U. S. Government, and provided housing, food and medical care to the Aleuts in exchange for seal harvesting.

Commercial flights at the airport were halted in October 1941 and the private carriers were asked to relocate their services to make room for the U. S. Army Air Forces.

* Commercial Item Description ( CID ): Cured Meat Snacks U. S. Dept.

* Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, " Ottawa asked to help block water diversion project: devils lake outlet recommended by U. S. army corps of engineers " ( October 20, 2003 ), Vol.

Both the “ Commercial Advance ” and the “ Send Show ” features were alleged to violate U. S. copyright and other federal and state laws, according to the TV industry plaintiffs, who wanted sales of the ReplayTV 4000 devices — slated for shipment on Nov. 15, 2001 — stopped.

Other graduates that distinguished themselves in legal academia and practice are university presidents Mark Yudof ( President of the University of California system ), John Frederick Zeller III ( President of Bucknell University ) and Rodney K. Smith ( President of Southern Virginia University ), Robert Butkin ( Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law ), William Schnader ( drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code ), William Draper Lewis ( founder of the American Law Institute and Dean of Penn Law ), Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. ( Solicitor General of the United States ), E. Grey Lewis ( General Counsel of the U. S. Navy ), Bernard Wolfman ( Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School ), Jonathan Z. Cannon ( Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Deputy Administrator of the EPA ).

New Restatement projects on Economic Torts, Employment Law, Trusts, and the U. S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration are currently underway as part of the Restatement Third series.

* Direct Commercial Sales, a method of arms sale in the U. S. by which a company directly negotiates with its buyer