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.

Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport with U. S. Route 30 and U. S. Route 101 as the main highways, and the Astoria – Megler Bridge connecting to neighboring Washington across the river.

It was one of the first agencies in the U. S. to implement the painting of centerlines on highways statewide ( thanks to June McCarroll ); the first to build a freeway west of the Mississippi ( the Pasadena Freeway ); the first to build a four-level stack interchange ; the first to develop and deploy nonreflective raised pavement markers, better known as Botts ' dots ; and one of the first to implement dedicated freeway-to-freeway connector ramps for high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by difficulties encountered during his involvement in the U. S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy.

For instance, H2 in one engine configuration averages about on highways, in the city, and has a curb weight of over, making it technically illegal for use on some streets in the U. S.

The main road into major towns would therefore become a sea of orange or red neon proclaiming < span style =" color: orange ;"> VACANCY </ span > ( and later < span style =" color: red ;"> C </ span >< span style =" color: blue ;"> O </ span >< span style =" color: orange ;"> L </ span >< span style =" color: purple ;"> O </ span >< span style =" color: cyan ;"> U </ span >< span style =" color: brown ;"> R </ span > TV, air conditioning or a pool ) as competing operators vied for precious visibility on crowded highways.

However, when Puerto Rico changed its mostly agricultural economy to an industrialized one, and the U. S. and Puerto Rican governments started investing heavily in interstate highways and freeways, the railroad business soon collapsed.

Such a description usually makes use of natural or manmade boundaries such as seacoasts, rivers, streams, the crests of ridges, lakeshores, highways, roads, and railroad tracks, and / or purpose-built artificial markers such as cairns, surveyor's posts, fences, official government surveying marks ( such as ones affixed by the U. S. Geodetic Survey ( USGS )), and so forth.

This was the case in many of the ghost towns along Ontario's historic Opeongo Line, and along U. S. Route 66 after motorists bypassed the latter on the faster moving highways I-44 and I-40.

The system of United States Numbered Highways ( often called U. S. Routes or U. S. Highways ) is an integrated system of roads and highways in the United States numbered within a nationwide grid.

* Environmental justice is a movement that began in the U. S. in the 1980s and seeks an end to environmental racism and prevent low-income and minority communities from an unbalanced exposure to highways, garbage dumps, and factories.

And according to the Congressional Budget Office, in 2004 the U. S. invested $ 400 billion in infrastructure capital across federal, state, and local levels including the private sectors on transportation networks, schools, highways, water systems, energy, and telecommunications services.

The United States has the world's largest network of highways, including both the Interstate Highway System and the U. S. Highway System.

The United States has the world's largest network of highways, including both the Interstate Highway System and the U. S. Highway System.

Other important federal highways though Memphis include the east-west U. S. Route 70, U. S. Route 64, and U. S. Route 72 ; and the north-south U. S. Route 51 and U. S. Route 61.

Some emigrants continued to use the trail well into the 1890s, and modern highways and railroads eventually paralleled large portions of the trail, including U. S. Highway 26, Interstate 84 in Oregon and Idaho and Interstate 80 in Nebraska.

New Circle Road ( KY 4 ) acts as an inner-beltway around the city, Man o ' War Boulevard is a semi outer-beltway south of New Circle Road, and numerous U. S. routes and arterial highways radiate out from downtown to provide access to the numerous bedroom communities ringing the metropolitan area.

Harlingen's strategic location at the intersection of U. S. highways 77 and 83 in northwestern Cameron County fostered its development as a distribution, shipping, and industrial center.

Two six-lane divided highways intersect in Harlingen: U. S. Highway 77 and U. S. Highway 83.