But if Congress balks at the extraordinary cost, now $24 billion, the shuttle will have little to do.

The extraordinary costs are the result of environmental contamination on a scale almost unimaginable.

"The formula doesn't reflect the extraordinary costs that we have incurred."

A project of this size and extraordinary cost - estimated at $6 billion - requires tremendous collaboration.

Federal officials had said in March that the Government would not pay the drug's extraordinary costs - about $2,200 a dose.

Coke will probably eke out volume growth of 5 percent or so this year, he said, but at an extraordinary cost.

On Staten Island, the city has been more successful, but at an extraordinary cost.

But some analysts said that, even adjusting for the extraordinary costs, Chemical's earnings were weak.

Then there is the second category of extraordinary costs, the result of mismanagement.

"We've had extraordinary cost increases, huge growth in our research enterprise and in the costs of things like campus security," he said.

These extraordinary costs are accepted as inevitable here.

Yet there's a massive obstacle to wider use of this life-saving drug - its extraordinary cost.

"Extraordinary costs, severe taxes upon the body politic that may not be tolerated.

But it still falls far short of proving that the plane is worth its extraordinary cost of $530 million a copy.

Those extraordinary costs will also be reduced, however, because current and past merger expenses were found to have been improperly inflated.

While employers voice their concern, the few private employers and governments that already offer the benefit say they have not experienced extraordinary costs.

But analysts also agree that China would still have extraordinary cost advantages even if the yuan were allowed to float freely.

"If this change in the law causes extraordinary costs for taxpayers, then there should be a provision for reimbursement," he said.

Very often, she said, the economics of those neighborhoods are not strong enough to support the "extraordinary cost" of compliance with landmark standards.

And part of it is likely due to the extraordinary costs that the network operators charge for video calling; it's rarely a cost-effective option.

European telecommunications companies have also been hurt by the extraordinary cost of mobile phone licenses in Britain, Germany and elsewhere.

"We're looking for a certain end point where the state's obligation for this extraordinary cost is over," said Mr. Fields.

For the time being, these techniques were limited by extraordinary costs and by the space available in the sophisticated units needed for aftercare.

"It also means that hard-pressed shoreline towns will be able to recoup some of the extraordinary costs incurred in responding to the storm."

Seven years in the making at a locally extraordinary cost $3.5-million, pic looks big but soon sags dangerously, and eventually ruptures."