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 1997, 3Com merged with U. S. Robotics, a maker of dial-up modems, and owner of Palm, Inc .. U. S. Robotics was known for its Sportster line of consumer oriented modems, as well as its Courier business-class modem line.

In addition to consumer network electronics, U. S. Robotics ( USR ) was a well-known manufacturer of a highly-regarded dialup access server, the " Total Control Hub ", rebadged by 3Com as the " Total Control 1000 ", based largely on its Courier modem technology.

The PalmPilot Personal and PalmPilot Professional are the second generation of Palm PDA devices produced by Palm Inc ( then a subsidiary of U. S. Robotics ).

* U. S. Robotics Announces Two New Models of the Best Selling Pilot Connected Organizer-Press Release, March 10, 1997.

Palm OS was originally developed under the direction of Jeff Hawkins at Palm Computing, Inc. Palm was later acquired by U. S. Robotics Corp., which in turn was later bought by 3Com, which made the Palm subsidiary an independent publicly traded company on March 2, 2000.

" It filed suit against Palm ( then U. S. Robotics ), alleging that Graffiti infringed on this patent.

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* Kawasaki Robotics ( U. K .) Ltd.

The company was acquired by U. S. Robotics Corp. in 1995.

In June 1997, Palm became a subsidiary of 3Com when U. S. Robotics was acquired by 3Com.

2000: the DELMIA brand is launched in order to address the digital manufacturing domain following a series of three acquisitions, including ( i ) Deneb Robotics, a U. S. company specialized in robotic simulation, ( ii ) Safework, a Canadian company specialized in human modeling technology, and ( iii ) EAI-DELTA, a German company specialized in manufacturing process management software.

However Hayes Communications moved only slowly to higher speeds or the use of compression, and three other companies led the way here – Microcom, U. S. Robotics and Telebit.

U. S. Robotics Corporation ( often referred to as USR ) is a company which produces USRobotics computer modems and related products.

( The later 2004 movie I, Robot, which was loosely based on Asimov's works, and set in Chicago, used the name " U. S. Robotics " for the fictional robot manufacturer.

) The movie's U. S. Robotics corporate logo resembles a former nonfictional USR logo.

* Official website of U. S. Robotics Corporation

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The term " Winmodem " is a trademark of U. S. Robotics but it is usually used to describe other modems with similar technologies.

Modems such as those made by U. S. Robotics used generic DSP architecture, which achieves the flexibility of softmodems, without sacrificing compatibility.