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Consumer Price Index (official title); the price index; the index; but a consumers' price index (descriptive)

Continent, only if following name; North American Continent; the continent; but the Continent (continental Europe)

Continental:

Army; the Army

Congress; the Congress

Divide (see Divide)

Outer Continental Shelf

Shelf; the shelf; a continental shelf

continental Europe, United States, etc.

Continentals (Revolutionary soldiers)

Convention, governmental (U.S.), international, or national political; the convention:

89th National Convention of the American Legion

Constitutional (United States, 1787); the Convention

Democratic National; Democratic

Genocide (international)

on International Civil Aviation

Republican National; Republican

Universal Postal Union; Postal Union

also International Postal; Warsaw

copper age (see Ages)

Corporation, if part of name; the Corporation, if referring to unit of Federal Government:

Commodity Credit

Federal Deposit Insurance

National Railroad Passenger (Amtrak)

Rand Corp.; the corporation

St. Lawrence Seaway Development

Union Carbide Corp.; the corporation

Virgin Islands

Corps, if part of name; the corps, all other uses:

Adjutant General's

Army Reserve

Chemical

diplomatic

Finance

Foreign Service Officer (see Foreign Service)

Job

Judge Advocate General's

Marine (see Marine Corps)

Medical

Military Police

Nurse

of Cadets (West Point)

of Engineers; Army Engineers; the Engineers; but Army engineer; the corps

Ordnance

Peace; Peace Corpsman; the corpsman

Quartermaster

Reserve Officers' Training (ROTC)

VII Corps, etc.

Signal

Transportation

Youth

but diplomatic corps

corpsman; hospital corpsman

corridor, Northeast

Council, if part of name; capitalized standing alone if referring to Federal or international unit (see also United Nations):

Boston City; the council

Choctaw, etc.; the council

Her Majesty's Privy Council; the Privy Council; the Council

National Security; the Council

of Foreign Ministers (NATO); the Council

of the Organization of American States; the Council

Philadelphia City; the council

counsel; general counsel

County, Prince George's; county of Prince George's; County Kilkenny, etc.;