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.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U. S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

Simultaneously, the U. S. began to expand westward into previously unexplored territory that was often wilderness.

The house was restored to the U. S. in 1818, though the fur trade would remain under British control until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840s.

In the early 1970s, following the revival of Asatru in Iceland, Stephen McNallen, a former U. S. Army Airborne Ranger, began publishing a newsletter titled The Runestone.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

Wine coolers gained popularity in the U. S. market in the 1980s when Bartles and Jaymes began advertising their brand of wine coolers, which were followed by other brands, including when Bacardi introduced the Breezer.

Because the markets were already nervous due to the Asian financial crisis, investors began selling non-U. S. treasury debt and buying U. S. treasuries, which were considered a safe investment.

In 2007, U. S. Department of Defense ’ s Telemedicine and Advanced Technologies Research Center ( TATRC ) began to study the antimicrobial properties of copper alloys, including four brasses ( C87610, C69300, C26000, C46400 ) in a multi-site clinical hospital trial conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( New York City ), the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center ( South Carolina ).

In 2009, the North Carolina Department of Transportation began widening 1. 1 miles of U. S. 421 ( King Street ) to a four to six-lane divided highway with a raised concrete median from U. S. 321 ( Hardin Street ) to east of N. C. 194 ( Jefferson Road ), including a new entrance and exit to the new Watauga High School, at a cost of $ 16. 2 million.

In 1985, the U. S. began its growing trade deficit with China.

All of this could well add up to a major readjustment of the U. S. trade deficit, which as a percentage of GDP, began in 1991.

The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.

At the request of the U. S. Air Force he began formalizing his Process Maturity Framework to aid the U. S. Department of Defense in evaluating the capability of software contractors as part of awarding contracts.

In Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere, under the Reagan Doctrine, the U. S. began undermining Soviet-supported governments by supplying arms to anti-communist resistance movements in these nations.

By 1959, the company had dealers across the U. S. and began selling the 310 ( known as Bluebird domestically ).

As early as the 1940s, scientists in the U. S. had begun expressing concern over possible hazards associated with DDT, and in the 1950s the government began tightening some of the regulations governing its use.

In 2000, Walt Disney, Texas Instruments and Technicolor with the cooperation of several U. S. and international exhibitors, began to deploy prototype Digital Cinema systems in commercial theatres.

Over 1999 and early 2000, the U. S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, and the economy began to lose speed.

It began as a U. S. Army proposal to place a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year ; however, that proposal was rejected in favor of the U. S. Navy's Project Vanguard.

After initial development, Robinson turned the movement over to James E. West who became the first Chief Scout Executive and the Scouting movement began to expand in the U. S. As BSA grew, it absorbed other Scouting organizations.

* Environmental justice is a movement that began in the U. S. in the 1980s and seeks an end to environmental racism.

In autumn 2008, the Montana Lottery, one of only four U. S. states to legalize sports betting, began offering fantasy sports wagering for the first time.