A cynic might say that we are a dozen years into the biggest financial coup the world has ever known.

I have information that the big coup was planned for early in the new year.

But the chairs - worth nearly $300,000 - were the biggest coup.

We believe they've been behind some of the biggest criminal coups in re- cent times.

"But I'm afraid you're a little late for the big coup."

We're out to make a big coup in the market, so to speak, and we don't want the competition to know what we're up to.

Metrowerks' biggest coup, though, has come in the video game field.

United, with about 6,800 active mechanics, is by far its biggest coup.

At that point, he was planning to retire, but not before pulling one last big coup.

Securing the first ship would be a big enough coup.