"Being in that relationship came at extraordinary personal cost, to me and to her," he says.

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

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

The Government data reflect these extraordinary and other costs as they occur.

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

Eligibility would be extended to people who have extraordinary medical costs even if their incomes are above that level.

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

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

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

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