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.

Nevertheless, the ICJ found that the U. S. encouraged acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law by producing the manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare ( Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ) and disseminating it to the contras.

Irish newcomers were sometimes uneducated and often found themselves competing with Americans for manual labour jobs or, in the 1860s, being recruited from the docks by the U. S. Army to serve in the American Civil War and afterward to build the Union Pacific Railroad.

Unarmed dagger defenses identical to those found in the manual of Fiore dei Liberi and the Codex Wallerstein were integrated into the U. S. Army's training manuals in 1942

In Statement 9, the Court stated that the U. S. encouraged human rights violations by the Contras by the manual entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare.

Highly trained and motivated U. S. Army crews could achieve 2 to 4 rounds per minute by using the hand-operated manual rammer, which was essentially a heavy steel pole with a hard rubber pad on one end.

Due to the years of difficult manual labour that Karloff had had to perform in Canada and the U. S. to make ends meet whilst he was trying to establish his acting career, he was left with back problems from which he suffered for the rest of his life.

In this manual ( p. 416 ), it states " The Volkswagen, the German equivalent of the U. S. " Jeep ", is inferior in every way except in the comfort of its seating accommodations.

Additionally, U. S. osteopathic physicians and academic researchers have conducted preliminary research to determine the efficacy of manual techniques to manage and / or co-manage conditions such as asthma and acute otitis media in children, dysmenorrhea, and pulmonary infection.

General George B. McClellan wrote a cavalry manual, Regulations and Instructions for the Field Service of the U. S. Cavalry, in 1862.

* 1987 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetland delineation manual

In the U. S., most Italians began their new lives as unskilled, manual workers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture.

* U. S. Army training manual diagram of different modes of attack, including double envelopment

This led to confusion in the U. S. as the instruction manual reads that Pols Voice, a rabbit-like enemy in the game, " hates loud noise ".

In the United States, in states where Mexican Americans make up a large percentage of the population, such as California and Texas, undocumented as well as legal immigrants from Mexico and Central America in addition to Mexican Americans combined often make up a large majority of workers in many blue-collar occupations: the majority of the employed men are restaurant workers, janitors, truck drivers, gardeners, construction laborers, material moving workers, or perform other types of manual or other blue collar labor ( Source, U. S. Census Bureau, American community survey data .).

Psychologists often associate these with particular categories of mental disorders, especially personality disorders, as classified in the U. S. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( this manual is also used in other countries, although the forms of personality disorders can be somewhat different in different countries, reflecting ethnic differences and differences in social systems ).

( The game's U. S. manual includes a note stating that the load and save functions " have been programmed in for potential product developments ".

The United States is another country with widespread use of ETC in several states, though many U. S. toll roads maintain the option of manual collection.

They are classed as a pack animal in a U. S. Special Forces field manual issued as recently as 2004, but their use by US personnel is discouraged because elephants are an endangered species.

The Datsun 510 released to the U. S. market came originally with the Hitachi downdraft carbureted 1. 6L L-series I4 engine, with an advertised gross power of 96 hp ( 72 kW ), a claimed top speed of 100 mph, front disc brakes, 4-wheel independent suspension ( MacPherson strut front and semi trailing arm rear-wagons had a solid rear live axle and leaf springs in back ), rear-wheel drive, and either a 4-speed manual or a 3-speed automatic transmission.

* The manual vetting system led to 273 U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests.

In her thirty-year career, Agnes Driscoll broke Japanese Navy manual codes -- the Red Book Code in the 1920s, and the Blue Book Code in 1930, and in 1940 she made critical inroads into JN-25, the Japanese fleet's operational code, which the U. S. Navy exploited after the attack on Pearl Harbor for the rest of the Pacific War.

Originally a one off model, sales were so successful in the U. S. that by 2005 it was available in four trims: the standard GSR model in Japan, the RS, with an aluminum roof, 5-speed gearbox, and standard wheels ( lacking excess components, such as interior map lights, power windows / doors, and radio ), the SSL ( with a sunroof, trunk mounted subwoofer, and leather seats ), and the MR, which came with a revised limited-slip front differential, aluminum MR shift knob, handbrake with carbon fiber handle, 17 inch BBS wheels, aluminum roof, and a 6-speed manual gearbox.

The U. S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between 4 and 10 million romusha ( Japanese: " manual laborer "), were forced to work by the Japanese military.

Use of the automatic also obviated the need to devise a workable manual-shift linkage ; no manual transmission was ever contemplated, as engineers deemed performance to be adequate with the automatic transmission and the fact that virtually all U. S .- built luxury cars during this period came with automatic transmissions as standard equipment.

In the U. S. market, a 2. 0-litre turbocharged I4 is the base engine, or a 3. 6-litre VR6 engine as the upgrade, with six-speed manual ( only available on the base 2. 0 T model ) and automatic transmissions.