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.

Law professor John Chipman Gray's The Nature and Sources of the Law, an examination and survey of the common law, is also still commonly read in U. S. law schools.

The first survey of the fantasy sports market in the U. S. in 1999 showed 29. 6 million people age 18 and older played fantasy games.

In the United States, which defines the furlong, chain, rod, and link in terms of the U. S. survey foot of exactly metre,

Lesbians in the U. S. are estimated to be about 2. 6 % of the population, according to a National Opinion Research Center survey of sexually active adults who had had same-sex experiences within the past year, completed in 2000.

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

A 1995 U. S. Census Bureau survey found that more Native Americans in the United States preferred American Indian to Native American.

According to a 2007 survey by the U. S. Small Business Administration, only 1 % of Native Americans own and operate a business.

James Wilson, U. S. Supreme Court Justice and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1790 and 1791, undertook a survey of the philosophical grounds of American property law.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

A survey of Northeast Africa by the World Bank and U. N. ranked Somalia second only to Sudan as the top prospective producer.

Former Ohio Governor and U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin who commissioned the Harris Line survey.

U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin, who was in charge of the survey, was a former Ohio governor.

In recent years USC has risen quickly in various rankings, including the U. S. News survey of U. S. universities, to 23rd place in 2011.

The 2006 survey by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that license sales generate approximately $ 700 million annually.

Providing degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels, SAIC has been recognized by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top graduate art programs in the nation, as well as by Columbia University's National Arts Journalism survey as the most influential art school in the United States.

According to a 1993 survey conducted by the U. S. Department of Education, out of the show's 6. 6 million viewers, 2. 4 million kindergartners regularly watched it.

A recent survey of U. S. economists by Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern found that most economists are supporters of safety regulations, public schooling, and anti-discrimination laws.

The Commonwealth Fund, in its annual survey, " Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ", compares the performance of the health systems in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the U. S. Its 2007 study found that, although the U. S. system is the most expensive, it consistently underperforms compared to the other countries.

1947 U. S. military survey showing bomb-damaged areas of Tokyo

Although de Celis's claim had been filed in October 1852, two years after California had been admitted into the Union as a state, it was not until January 8, 1873 that a formal U. S. survey showed the Rancho Ex-Mission de San Fernando area as, the largest area of any single grant in California.

According to the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute that undertake an annual quantitative survey about electronic monitoring and surveillance with approximately 300 U. S. companies, “ more than one fourth of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and nearly one third have fired employees for misusing the Internet “.

The current flag for the state of Oregon was rated in a survey by the North American Vexillological Association as 62nd out of the 72 U. S. state, U. S. territorial and Canadian provincial flags.