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.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U. S. had experienced high inflation and Friedman's policy positions tended to defend the stronger dollar at that time.

Britain had never experienced the boom that had characterized the U. S., Germany, Canada and Australia in the 1920s, so its bust appeared less severe.

The U. S. Navy has never experienced a reactor accident.

At the time, most U. S. commanders at lower levels had little or no combat experience of any kind ; without the input of experienced British or Allied combat officers on the nature of modern warfare and enemy tactics, many of them resorted to formulaic training methods emphasizing static defense and orderly large-scale advances by motorized convoys over improved roads.

As experienced by other European volume car makers, Peugeot's U. S. and Canadian sales faltered and finally became uneconomical, as the Peugeot 505 design aged.

A Langmuir probe can be purchased off the shelf for on the order of 15, 000 U. S. dollars, or they can be built by an experienced researcher and / or technician.

Subsyndromal Seasonal Affective Disorder is a milder form of SAD experienced by an estimated 14. 3 % ( vs. 6. 1 % SAD ) of the U. S. population.

Since the late 20th century, Osceola County has experienced a significant influx of immigrants from Puerto Rico, and in the 2000 U. S. Census Puerto Rican was the largest self-reported ancestry group.

Chelmsford experienced a drastic increase in population between 1950 and 1970, coinciding with the connection of U. S. Route 3 in Lowell to Massachusetts Route 128 in the 1950s and the extension of U. S. Route 3 from Chelmsford to New Hampshire in the 1960s.

Served by the Solon City Schools, a system consistently rated as one of the 100 best schools in the U. S. by publications such as Newsweek and U. S. News & World Report, the village has since experienced residential development.

According to the web site of the U. K. chapter of Friends of the Earth wood fiber can normally only be recycled up to five times due to damage experienced to the fiber.

In the early 1950s Klemperer experienced difficulties arising from his U. S. citizenship.

During the 1930s, the U. S. and the rest of the world experienced a severe economic contraction that is now called the Great Depression.

However, cases which advance to the appellate level, particularly to the U. S. Supreme Court, are often re-assigned to experienced appellate practitioners or firms.

This approach was finally accepted within the U. S. auto industry, but only after each of the Big Three experienced the failure of attempting to be self-sufficient.

Western Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert is also traditionally considered part of the Western U. S, though from a climatological perspective the West might be said to begin just west of Austin, TX where annual rainfall drops off significantly from what is typically experienced in the East, with a concurrent change in plant and animal species.

U. S. Steel was non-union and experienced steel producers, led by Schwab, wanted to keep it that way with aggressive tactics to identify and root out trouble makers.

In a 2012 interview with NME, Hoppus stated that he prefers the healthcare system in the United Kingdom to his native U. S. He stated: " The waiting times here that I've experienced at the local clinics in the UK have been far shorter than the waiting times in the United States.

Resident sannyasins without U. S. citizenship experienced visa difficulties that some tried to overcome by marriages of convenience.

Despite this accusation, the organization as a whole has experienced little censure from U. S. authorities.

With the breaching of dikes by local communities subsequent to the 2003 U. S. invasion of Iraq and the ending of a four year drought that same year, the process has been reversed and the marshes have experienced a substantial rate of recovery.

OPIC supports U. S. foreign policy objectives by encouraging development in regions that have experienced instability or conflict, yet offer promising growth opportunities, such as the Middle East and North Africa, sub ‐ Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.