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  • "Did you do the leather paneling on this 'Storage Coffer' or did we?"

    Made in Italy Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

  • Coffer Black, former head of counter-terrorism for the Central Intelligence Agency, said it would have great meaning for many in the United States.

    Osama bin Laden Was Target of Perhaps Largest Manhunt in US History 2011

  • Coffer Black, former head of counter-terrorism for the Central Intelligence Agency, said it would have great meaning for many in the United States.

    Osama bin Laden Was Target of Perhaps Largest Manhunt in US History 2011

  • Coffer Black, former head of counter-terrorism for the Central Intelligence Agency, said it would have great meaning for many in the United States.

    Osama bin Laden Was Target of Perhaps Largest Manhunt in US History 2011

  • These cartoons were published in New York to denounce the Compromise of 1790, which removed Congress to Philadelphia pending completion of a new capitol at Washington, D.C. Both depict an oversized Robert Morris—Robert Coffer, in one rendition—as the architect of the move.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • One tagged Morris as “Robert Coffer,” and showed him oversized, with bags of money in his hands as he leads Congress to Philadelphia.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • These cartoons were published in New York to denounce the Compromise of 1790, which removed Congress to Philadelphia pending completion of a new capitol at Washington, D.C. Both depict an oversized Robert Morris—Robert Coffer, in one rendition—as the architect of the move.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • One tagged Morris as “Robert Coffer,” and showed him oversized, with bags of money in his hands as he leads Congress to Philadelphia.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Coffer n Someone who coughs with extreme surprise when they open their wallet to find that there is far more money in there than they realised.

    Neologisms 2007

  • But the White House has less to say about the revelation that CIA director George Tenet and his counterterrorism chief Coffer Black (ph) two months before 9/11 requested an emergency meeting with Condoleezza Rice to sound the alarm that intelligence showed al Qaeda would soon attack the United States.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2006 2006

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