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.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.

In the mid-1990s, a series of external shocks began to change the economic environment-the devaluation of the Chinese Renminbi and the Japanese Yen, raising of U. S. interest rates which led to a strong U. S. dollar, the sharp decline in semiconductor prices ; adversely affected their growth.

WaferTech, a subsidiary of TSMC, is a pure-play semiconductor foundry located in Camas, Washington, U. S. A.

Because of its proximity to U. S. government and military installations and the technology private sector the college has partnerships several institutions, including defense contractors and semiconductor manufacturers ( Intel, Boeing, Agilent, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin ), national laboratory ( Sandia National Laboratories ), and the military ( United States Northern Command, Air Force Space Command, and the United States Air Force Academy ).

* Marvell Technology Group, U. S. semiconductor company

U. S. firms, mostly manufacturers of apparel, footwear, and light electronics, as well as U. S. energy companies, account for much of the foreign private investment in the Dominican Republic.

Semi-automatic versions of the AR-15 are popular recreational shooting rifles, with versions manufactured by other small and large manufacturers in the U. S.

Other U. S. manufacturers followed suit.

By 1907, REO had gross sales of $ 4. 5 million and the company was one of the four wealthiest automobile manufacturers in the U. S. After 1908 however, despite the introduction of improved cars designed by Olds, REO's share of the automobile market decreased due in part to competition from emerging companies like Ford and General Motors.

Intel, the world's largest manufacturer, has facilities in Europe and Asia as well as the U. S. Other top manufacturers include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ( Taiwan ),

Four FDA-cleared WNV IgM ELISA kits are commercially available from different manufacturers in the U. S., each of these kits is indicated for use on serum to aid in the presumptive laboratory diagnosis of WNV infection in patients with clinical symptoms of meningitis or encephalitis.

Up until 2004, Scott was one of the last remaining U. S. manufacturers to still produce toilet paper in beige, blue, and pink.

Recent enforcement action by the FDA against manufacturers of paregoric and opium tincture suggests that opium tincture's availability in the U. S. may be in jeopardy.

The dots are yellow and about in size, with a raster of about This is purportedly the result of a deal between the U. S. government and printer manufacturers to help track counterfeiters.

To speed up chemical reactions, the U. S. manufacturers ( mainly Monsanto ) had increased the temperature in the process of preparation.

As of 2010, it's been reported that there are less than 12 U. S. manufacturers, of which five are major: Valmont Industries and their " Valley " products, Lindsay Corporation and their " Zimmatic " brand, Reinke Irrigation with their " Electrogator " machines, T-L Irrigation who make a hydrostatically powered system and Pierce Corporation and their " CircleMaster " products.

The United States and Israel were initial pioneers in this technology, and U. S. manufacturers have a market share of over 60 % in 2006, with U. S. market share due to increase by 5 – 10 % through 2016.

Israeli and European manufacturers form a second tier due to lower indigenous investments, and the governments of those nations have initiatives to acquire U. S. systems due to higher levels of capability.

Some companies within the U. S. fireworks industry claim they are working with Chinese manufacturers to reduce and ultimately hope to eliminate of the pollutant perchlorate.

Subsequently, production of autogyros was licensed to a number of manufacturers, including the Pitcairn Autogiro Company in the U. S. and Focke-Wulf of Germany.

That much is evident from the distended stomachs of children in villages like Pont-Sonde, the throngs of women seeking jobs at 30 cents an hour in sweatshops owned by U. S. clothing manufacturers and the daily street demonstrations through the slums of Port-au-Prince by laid-off government employees.

Classic programs include the Electric Power Research Institute's ( EPRI ) CAFTA software, which is used by many of the US nuclear power plants and by a majority of US and international aerospace manufacturers, and the Idaho National Laboratory's SAPHIRE, which is used by the U. S. Government to evaluate the safety and reliability of nuclear reactors, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station.

These two organizations licensed dozens of manufacturers in the U. S., Japan, and Europe.

* The U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) votes to require television manufacturers to include digital tunerss in nearly all televisions by 2007.

Santa Fe Springs is home to Egge Machine Company, supplier of Cadillac engine parts for custom cars and hot rods and also is home to U. S. Aerospace, a publicly traded aerospace and defense contractor for the USDoD, USAF, Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, L-3 Communications Holdings, the Middle River Aircraft Systems subsidiary of General Electric Company, and other aircraft manufacturers, aerospace companies, and defense contractors.

In addition, Intervet, one of the world ’ s leading manufacturers of animal health supplies, selected De Soto for one of its four U. S. manufacturing facilities.