The months of delay added more than $400,000 to the cost of interest on his construction loan, he said.

And time is money; each month of construction adds about $35 million in interest expense.

He wouldn't mention the article if he'd not read it, and "a few months back" adds nothing.

Every two months we'll add colors and styles," she said, "but they'll all work with what went before.

Each month of delay is adding about $1 million to the cost of the telescope, now scheduled for a flight no earlier than February 1989.

Lunar months including leap months added every two or three years.

"And two months equal about eight weeks," Joe added excitedly.

"I figure with two months of that added all up, against the money I'll lose that weekend, it's almost a break-even situation."

It now takes months to add a newborn to a family's welfare budget so they can draw the extra benefits, she said.

The brutal reality is that it is just another month added to the 45 years of hurt.