11.   The payments resumed, a steady drain on public coffers.

12.   The prosecutors have, in effect, unlimited resources by virtue of their access to public coffers.

13.   The recession and the war on terrorism have drained public coffers in the short term.

14.   There have been hints that the generous handouts may end unless the government in Athens remodels its public administration and makes Greeks contribute more to the public coffers.

15.   They were not able to determine whether any of the money came from public coffers, as the opposition has charged.

16.   Opposition legislators said he was burdening the already strained public coffers just to pay off political debts.

17.   Calling the allegations slanderous, CSU secretary-general Thomas Goppel insisted the practice had been declared legal by parliamentary officials who administer campaign money from public coffers.

18.   Fed up with a growing drain on public coffers, the state ministers will also discuss offering bounties for turning in tax dodgers.

19.   Fed up with a growing drain on public coffers, German politicians are considering rewards for people who turn in tax dodgers.

20.   France faces a wave of retirees in coming years who will put enormous pressure on public coffers.