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 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".

The Erie Canal with its easy connections to most of the U. S. mid-west and New York City soon quickly paid back all its invested capital ( USD $ 7 million ) and started turning a profit.

The U. S. Government receives all of the system's annual profits, after a statutory dividend of 6 % on member banks ' capital investment is paid, and an account surplus is maintained.

Less than two years after its U. S release, King Kong vs. Godzilla was paid homage to by DC Comics, where the King Kong-like Titano battles the Godzilla-like Flame Dragon on the set of a monster movie.

The U. S. government paid a fee for this ; in 1964, it was about $ 14, 000 a month for about per day.

The authors of the study concluded that the prices paid for health care services are much higher in the U. S.

" The U. S. government paid Stuart $ 5, 000 for a " right to use " license and Stuart contracted with Knorr, Nece and Co. of Philadelphia to manufacture his hook.

In the legal case of Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U. S. 783 ( 1983 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state legislature could constitutionally have a paid chaplain to conduct legislative prayers " in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

From 1956 to August 1998, at least $ 759 million was paid to the Marshallese Islanders in compensation for their exposure to U. S. nuclear testing.

From 1945 to 1960, the U. S .- owned Nicaraguan Long Leaf Pine Company ( NIPCO ) directly paid the Somoza family millions of dollars in exchange for favorable benefits to the company, such as not having to re-forest clear cut areas.

Although only Israel and El Salvador, which was receiving massive amounts of military aid to fight its own guerrilla insurgency, voted with the U. S., the money still has not been paid.

U. S. suppliers are paid via the U. S. based Polaris Trust Fund.

Limbaugh is among the highest paid people in U. S. media, signing a contract in 2008 for $ 400 million through 2016.

U. S. President Ronald Reagan also paid a visit, and relations with the Soviet Union and China improved.

In 1979, a move towards independence was agreed upon in principle for 1982, but a change in government caused a policy reversal, and they instead approached the Canadian government to discuss a possible union, but at the time the Canadian Government was embroiled in a debate over free trade with the U. S., and little attention was paid to the suggestion.

No state paid all of their U. S. taxes ; Georgia paid nothing.

Connecticut paid nothing and " positively refused " to pay U. S. assessments for two years.

All foreign affairs activities — U. S. representation abroad, foreign assistance programs, countering international crime, foreign military training programs, the services the Department provides, and more — are paid for by the foreign affairs budget, which represents little more than 1 % of the total federal budget.

Ex-dividend date ( typically 2 trading days before the record date for U. S. securities ) is the day on which all shares bought and sold no longer come attached with the right to be paid the most recently declared dividend.

In 1978, the U. S. government paid for Kazan and his family to travel to Kazan's birthplace where many of his films were to be shown.

U. S. prosecutors further alleged that some bribes were paid through shell companies based in the U. S. " In some cases Daimler wired these improper payments to U. S. bank accounts or to the foreign bank accounts of U. S. shell companies in order to transmit the bribe ," the court papers said.