The contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Defense contracting is one of the few healthy manufacturing sectors we have right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » One Man’s Inefficiency is Another Man’s Job] Reference

Indeed a woman undergoes a greater change of condition than a man in contracting marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

So why was this such a surprise to some people that National Grid left out long term contracting of renewable energy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhode Islands Future: Politics & Culture - Front Page] Reference

Hazel McCallion tells me she has avoided tax increases twice already because she got a better deal in contracting out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayoral Debate] Reference

The rare FDIC move resulted in contracting out running the failed Greeley bank to Bank of the West for a 30 day period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonk Room » The WonkLine: April 15, 2009] Reference

Assembly, and signed by Governor Carcieri, that clarified the intent of the original long-term contracting legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RI.gov] Reference

The Vancouver Coastal health Authority is set to begin contracting out day surgeries to private, for-profit health clinics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daimnation!: Private health care in BC! The sky is falling!] Reference

If you call contracting a fatal disease from allegedly boning virile young Arab men poisoning, yeah I guess he was poisoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodthirsty Liberal] Reference

Well, the order cites testimony from National Grid officials that they knew that some type of long term contracting was necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhode Islands Future: Politics & Culture - Front Page] Reference

Development of these resources requires expansive well programs resulting in longer-term contracting arrangements for some services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halliburton Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings of $0.68 Per Diluted Share from Continuing Operations - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

Development contracting is essentially government-sponsored stabilization and reconstruction efforts outsourced to private contractors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malou Innocent: Afghanistan's Massive Contracting Fraud] Reference

Records of the electric changes in contracting muscle seemed to one school to imply a very high frequency of discharge in each nerve fibre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Adrian - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Defence's (DoD) requirements but that long-term contracting and procurement practices were required to balance cash flow, supply chain and resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Throughout the early 1990s, companies applied strategic sourcing techniques such as long-term contracting, supplier process integration and group buying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

As to the latter, my frequent changes, which I freely acknowledge, have not been owing to any inconstancy, but to precipitation and want of caution in contracting them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Emily Montague] Reference

Afterwards, I laid down on the bed, shockwaves of pure foody goodness thundering through my body, echoing through my veins and muscles in contracting pulses of languidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic And The Moment] Reference

I was a fool for not going on unemployment in the 80s (the last time the US IT industry was in trouble) - I lived off savings and short term contracting jobs for over 15 months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Mayor Rob Ford likes the idea of contracting out to save money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

"And I'll call the contracting company to tell them what happened.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Staircase]

He is also undeterred by the idea of contracting for services with an outside company.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Lynchburg News Advance] Reference

Its 108 members, called contracting parties, account for more than 85 percent of world trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gatt Membership Fact Sheet] Reference

Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from even studying the idea of contracting out guard duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Performance Review Report Chapter] Reference

All I have to do is call the contracting officer and suggest, ever so mildly, that the Indonesian project should go to a local firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Builders]

The federal government conducts its contract business only through properly authorized federal employees, called contracting officers.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Honesty in contracting: should be good!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discourse.net: Goverment to Only Do Business With Honest Contractors -- Military-Industrial Complex Faces Doom] Reference

And so, I urge you to keep us posted on how you're integrating that kind of contracting into the contracting reforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Isenberg: A Hundred Billion Dollars Up in Smoke] Reference

Christmas spending in particular, spending related specifically to the holidays, it's been kind of contracting overtime.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2008] Reference

I would think this kind of agreement should be included with the unenforceable agreements such as contracting yourself into slave labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Vacates TRO Barring Divorced Father From Exposing Child to Religion Other Than the Mother’s] Reference

This means that the economy is contracting which isn't really good economic news.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

We give these as illustrations of the power of contracting which is fairly implied in the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference

Schaffer aligned the structure so that activities such as contracting and negotiating are now in one organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

The final panel will then discuss in greater depth issues such as contracting, transparency and vertical integration.    From Wordnik.com.  [USDOJ: Justice News] Reference

The US economy is currently 'contracting' at a rate of six percent per year, alarming and catastrophic if not restrained and soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

"upon 'contracting' being as an illness ... gets caught in the mad ... alternation of contraction and expansion" ( "Hegel" 191).    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference

Additional issues such as contracting out and incapacity will also be addressed jointly in the forthcoming months, "the two parties said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference