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The Guardian p. 16 21 March 2007

circa

Channel Four UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jun/28/
channel4.broadcasting

Calif.

California USA

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/
travel/36-hours-in-santa-barbara-calif.html

CAPTCHA

Completely Automated Public Turing Test

To Tell Computers and Humans Apart

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/
560082659/ai-model-fundamentally-cracks-captchas-scientists-say

CBC

Congressional Black Caucus

Since its establishment in 1971,

the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)

has been committed

to using the full Constitutional power,

statutory authority,

and financial resources

of the federal government

to ensure that African Americans

and other marginalized communities

in the United States

have the opportunity

to achieve the American Dream.

(...)

The CBC is engaged

at the highest levels of Congress

with members who serve

in House leadership.

- 28 March 2020

https://cbc.house.gov/about/

CBD

cannabidiol

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2019/06/21/
734737713/willie-nelson-on-cowboys-crazy-and-cbd-infused-coffee

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/31/
728370966/as-cbd-oils-become-more-popular-the-fda-is-looking-at-how-they-should-be-regulat

CBE

Commander of Order of the British Empire UK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jun/16/artnews.art

CBGB

Country, BlueGrass, and Blues USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/
what-it-was-like-in-the-punk-days-when-cbgb-was-the-place-to-be/

CBI

Confederation of British Industry UK

https://www.theguardian.com/business/
cbi

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/apr/14/
investigating-alleged-sexual-misconduct-at-the-cbi - Guardian podcast

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/26/high-street-sales-three-year-high-cbi

http://www.theguardian.com/news/1980/nov/12/mainsection.simonhoggart

C.B.O.

Congressional Budget Office USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/
business/mixed-results-in-us-study-of-increasing-minimum-wage.html

CBOT

Chicago Board of Trade USA

https://www.cmegroup.com/company/cbot.html

CBP

U.S. Customs and Border Protection USA

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/02/
asylum-seekers-children-expulsion-pandemic/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/05/
522791213/apprehensions-at-southern-border-continue-to-drop-cbp-says

CBT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2014/may/20/
cbt-psychosis-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-voices

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/
why-doctors-need-stories/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/us/
susan-nolen-hoeksema-psychologist-who-studied-depression-in-women-dies-at-53.html

CCTV

Closed Circuit TeleVision

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/20/cctv-classroom-teachers-school-lab-rats

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/11/cctv-cameras-school-changing-rooms

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/may/13/london-cctv-surveillance-olympics-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/24/ukcrime

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/13/7-7-inquest-bombers-cctv

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/oct/13/77-inquest-bombers-cctv-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/17/birmingham-stops-spy-cameras-project

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/16/baby-survives-train-hits-pram

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/01/faisal-al-ani-police-arrest

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/18/cctv-crime-police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/01/police-custody-assault-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/06/surveillance-freedom-peers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2242051,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2122634,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2049786,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2028548,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/mar/08/race.ukcrime1

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jan/11/
communities.politics

Compact Disc

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/06/
583666258/best-buy-to-pull-cds-from-its-stores-according-to-report

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/12/brothers-in-arms-cd

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jan/18/pop.music

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/24/digitalmedia.netmusic

C.D.C. / CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention USA

https://www.cdc.gov/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/22/
1201133961/cdc-recommends-rsv-vaccine-in-late-pregnancy-
to-protect-newborns

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/05/
1192249265/rsv-prevention-cdc-nirsevimab

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/24/
971164106/cdc-launches-web-tool-to-help-americans-find-covid-19-vaccines

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/
640992992/former-cdc-director-arrested-and-charged-with-sexual-misconduct

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/16/
571329234/trump-administration-reportedly-instructs-cdc-on-its-own-version-of-7-dirty-word

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/02/
512678115/cdc-seeks-controversial-new-quarantine-powers-to-stop-outbreaks

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/29/
495925278/cdc-urges-americans-to-get-a-flu-shot-as-soon-as-possible

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/01/
465160937/cdc-endorses-a-more-effective-hpv-vaccine-to-prevent-cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/
health/us-still-in-danger-of-losing-war-on-aids-cdc-director-says.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/us/dallas-
nurse-ebola-patient.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/health/
cdc-report-finds-23000-deaths-a-year-from-antibiotic-resistant-infections.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/national/23cdc.html

celebs

celebrities

CEO / C.E.O.

Chairman Executive Organizer

Gary Markstein

Copley News Service

Cagle

23 March 2009

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/
1221128925/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-
discusses-the-promise-and-potential-perils-of-ai

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/14/
628765208/tech-workers-demand-ceos-
stop-doing-business-with-ice-other-u-s-agencies

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/28/
435245281/comparing-the-top-boss-pay-to-yours

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/18/pay-gap-grows-ftse-bosses

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/
business/an-unstoppable-climb-in-ceo-pay.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/
your-money/at-apple-and-jpmorgan-a-good-week-for-the-ceo.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/23/blackberry-ceos-resign-rim

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/14/executive-pay-increase-america-ceos

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/technology/jobs-stepping-down-as-chief-of-apple.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/21/google-larry-page-ceo-schmidt

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04image.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/opinion/l21brooks.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/opinion/19brooks.html

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2005/12/20/jesus-ceo

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/opinion/25friedman.html

CES

Consumer Electronics USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/
794036996/whats-next-in-tech-we-dodged-robots-at-ces-to-find-out

CFO

Chief Financial Officer

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/
1010914803/trumps-family-business-cfo-are-criminally-charged-for-alleged-tax-crimes

CFPB

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/30/
801302136/senators-to-cfpb-why-are-you-still-failing-to-protect-student-loan-borrowers

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/16/
723568597/cfpb-chief-says-education-department-is-blocking-student-loan-oversight

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/18/
586493309/trump-administrations-latest-strike-on-cfpb-budget-cuts

CFS

Chronic fatigue syndrome

conditions > Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / ME

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/
well/new-recognition-for-chronic-fatigue.html

Computer Graphic

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/
465989808/mad-max-director-george-miller-the-audience-tells-you-what-your-film-is

Chemo

Chemotherapy

CHIP

Children's Health Insurance Program USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/05/
576096900/chip-funding-could-run-out-on-jan-19-for-some-states

CGI

computer generated imagery

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/
1186778012/mission-impossible-7-review-dead-reckoning-part-one-tom-cruise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/04/
kurt-cobain-digital-zombies

C.I.A.

Central Intelligence Agency USA

C.I.A. Report Found Value of Brutal Interrogation Was Inflated

NYT

JAN 20, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/
world/cia-report-found-value-of-brutal-interrogation-was-inflated.html

Terry Mosher (Aislin)

cartoon

The Montreal Gazette

Montreal, Canada

Cagle

27 August 2009

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/
central-intelligence-agency

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/07/
519010317/wikileaks-releases-what-it-calls-cia-trove-of-cyberespionage-documents

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/
world/cia-torture-guantanamo-bay.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/
world/cia-report-found-value-of-brutal-interrogation-was-inflated.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/03/
a-new-director-or-a-new-direction-for-the-cia

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/world/africa/attack-in-libya-
was-major-blow-to-cia-efforts.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/
us-obama-cia-idUSTRE74J69A20110521/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/world/asia/28drones.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/us/politics/26intel.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/22/cia-interrogation-report-leaked

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/07/usa1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/20/usa.features11

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/06/germany.usa

CIRA

Continuity Irish Republican Army Northern Ireland

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jul/28/
northernireland.uksecurity

CJD

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/27/
bse.sarahboseley

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/oct/30/
medicineandhealth.bse

CMAs

Country Music Awards USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/
1211853629/tracy-champan-fast-car-cmas-luke-combs

CML

Council of Mortgage Lenders

CNN

Cable News Network USA

https://edition.cnn.com/

http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/arts/television/05watch.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/business/media/27cnn.html

CO2

Carbon dioxide

The Guardian p. 16 21.3.2007

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/mar/28/
greenpolitics.politics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4803460.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4467420.stm

CofE

Church of England

https://www.churchofengland.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/
survivors-abuse-church-of-england-protest-bishop-of-oxford-inauguration

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/
church-of-england-sick-of-itself

Colo.

Colorado USA

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/18/
travel/what-to-do-36-hours-boulder-colorado.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57477014/
colo-shooter-purchased-guns-legally-from-3-different-stores/

Conn.

Connecticut USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/10/
592282517/conn-governor-defends-likening-the-nra-to-a-terrorist-organization

Contd

Continued

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/02/
529759280/many-copd-patients-struggle-to-pay-for-each-breath

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/health/29lung.html

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jul/20/
health.medicineandhealth

CofE

Church of England

https://www.churchofengland.org/

copter / 'copter

helicopter

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/nyregion/15chopper.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/international/middleeast/22iraq.html

COVID-19

'CO' stands for corona, 'VI' for virus, and 'D' for disease.

https://www.gocomics.com/nickanderson/2020/09/10

CPAC

Conservative Political Action Conference USA

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/
cpac

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/05/
1161180126/donald-trump-cpac-2023-republican-haley-ramaswamy-desantis

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/
971130755/its-all-about-trump-cpac-seems-poised-to-ignore-republican-identity-crisis

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/
516930452/watch-live-vice-president-pence-addresses-cpac

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/22/
516535373/what-is-cpac-a-room-that-didnt-always-love-trump-but-owes-him-a-lot

CPI

consumer prices index

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/may/22/
uk-inflation-drops-mervyn-king

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/24/rpi-inflation-zero

CPR

Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation

Sgt. Al Smoot, of Harold, California,

gives CPR to an injured U.S. soldier

in the emergency room of the U.S. military hospital

at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan

on June 7,2009.

Photo: Rafiq Maqbool

The Boston Globe > The Big Picture

In Afghanistan, Part Two

July 17, 2009

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/in_afghanistan_part_two.html - broken link

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/12/12/
1218680009/cpr-aed-defibrillator-advance-directive

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/
1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-
than-enduring-cpr

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/12/
447224226/a-metronome-can-help-set-the-cpr-beat

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/
dr-james-jude-who-helped-develop-use-of-cpr-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/
health/research/doctors-may-be-ending-cpr-efforts-too-soon-study-says.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/29/
michael-jackson-doctor-trial-conrad-murray

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/
arts/design/17liberty.html

CPS

Crown Prosecution Service UK

The Guardian p. 1 10 December 200

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2008/12/10/pdfs/gdn_081210_ber_1_21420515.pdf

https://www.cps.gov.uk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/22/duchess-cambridge-prank-call-cps

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/02/chris-huhne-speeding-allegations-cps-decision

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/10/assisted-suicide-daniel-james-cps

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/feb/09/terrorism.world

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/sep/11/terrorism.ukcrime

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jul/09/religion.immigrationpolicy1

CQC

Care quality commission

https://www.cqc.org.uk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2013/jun/21/
cqc-cover-up-allegations-cartoon

CRE

Commission for Racial Equality

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/nov/27/immigrationpolicy.thefarright

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jul/19/race.world

Cred

Credibility

The Guardian Weekend p. 6 26 August 2006

CRISPR

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR

Video WIRED 24 May 2017

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN8d4_MUg

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/06/05/
531537611/crispr-five-ways

CSA

1 - Child Support Agency UK

A. Krauze

cartoon

The Guardian

Society

p. 6

23 November 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/nov/23/
guardiansocietysupplement.childrensservices

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/jul/25/
money

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/nov/23/
guardiansocietysupplement.childrensservices

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/nov/28/
childrensservices.politics

2 - community supported agriculture

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/10/
852512047/as-food-supply-chain-breaks-down-farm-to-door-csas-take-off

CSI

Crime Scene Investigation

CT scan

computed tomography (CT) scan

A computed tomography (CT) scan

is an imaging method that uses x-rays

to create cross-sectional pictures

of the body.

http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/ct-scan/overview.html - broken URL

C.T.E. / CTE

chronic traumatic encephalopathy

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/
1049814853/everyday-people-fear-they-have-cte-
a-dubious-market-has-sprung-up-to-treat-them

http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/
100000004182210/ken-stabler.htm - Feb 3. 2016

C'wealth

Commonwealth of Nations

https://thecommonwealth.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
commonwealth-of-nations

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