Contracting
* is one of several approaches for implementing managed care in a correctional setting.
* is the art of selling skills to a paying client
  - most frequent form of privatization
  - used when a person provides a specific service for a set fee for a set duration
* transaction between parties.
* unique relationship between employer and employee.

Creative consciousness
* can create good, or evil.
* is enveloped in 'havingness'.

Contemplation
* can spring out of emptiness, in poverty, dereliction and spiritual night.
* exists as a matter of law.
* form of concentration on values such as beauty and truth.
* is Western meditation and powerful technique because it liberates
  - achieved through continuous repetition of a word or a syllable
  - an inward regrouping, or ingathering, of mental resources
  - books
  - both a relaxation of our faculties and their total alertness
  - consideration
  - knowledge by love
  - prayer without words
  - produced when the mind, self possessed, is at rest
  - supposed to lead to mystical insight
* is the foundation for all forms of interior prayer
  - natural complement of both celebration and action
  - primary essential whereby one is able to cut off the delusions
  - second stage of repentance and change
  - simplest expression of the mystery of prayer
  - stage in which people intend to change within the next six months
  - thirst caused by the seeming absence or the satiety of mutual presence
  - vision
* mental process, meditation spiritual process.
* seeks an intuition of being beyond the dualities of life
  - to sharpen the mind's reasoning ability

Corroboration
* is an important test of truth
  - confirmation
  - evidence which confirms the accuracy of other evidence in a material particular
  - important when children's illnesses are diagnosed
  - the tendency of our perceptions to reflect and confirm our preconceptions
* method reporters employ to access credibility.

Correctness
* function of the biological ground truth.
* is precision
  - propriety
  - quality
* is the death of style and variation in speech and writing
  - lifeline of information
* measure of how well the program meets the assignment specifications.
* refers to the straightness of the horses legs.

Comic_strip
* Comics are a collectible medium
  - form of communication, after all
  - living, breathing medium
  - medium and superheroes are a subgenre, the main genre being fantasy
  - two-dimensional medium for communicating stories graphically
* Comics are a visual medium, and many stylistic aspects are dictated by the size of the page
  - storytelling medium
  - essentially only a medium, much like painting, film or prose is
  - like any other art form
  - can be tools of good or of evil
  - has a rich history of self-loathing
  - mailing list dedicated to European comics
  - world of line art, where cross-hatching is used to represent different levels of gray
* Some comics sing, dance and play an instrument.

Cerebral edema
* can lead to coma, neurological damage, and death.
* complication that affects primarily children.
* is an uncommon but devastating complication of diabetic ketoacidosis in children
  - correlated with the administration of bicarbonate
  - diseases
* is the complication that every doctor looking after children with diabetes fears
  - increase in brain tissue water causing swelling
* produces headaches, nausea, and sometimes seizures and coma.
* refers to brain swelling due to an accumulation of water.
* serious complication in many patients with brain tumors.

Cardiovascular training
* is important for good health, for fat burning, and for muscle-building.
* vital part of maintaining good health.

Clinical hypnosis
* can help people quit smoking.
* is conceptualized and approached as a system of skilled communication.