Word: abp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even I am an example of the trend. And it doesn't really bother me in real life. Who feels like enunciating the nasally "Au Bon Pain," when you can spit out "ABP" in just one breath...
Take Au Bon Pain, the Square's colossal central coffee shop. The French words aren't too hard to pronounce, really. But the less ambitious have taken to labeling the cafe "ABP." After all, these are the '90s, and short attention spans and busy lives have reduced rules of pronunciation to a single concept: the simpler, the better...
...Today's "ABP" is all fluorescent lights and faux marble tables. The cafe added a sunroom-style front section, jazzed up its designer food display case and imported coffee beans from its neighbor and cafe rival, The Coffee Connection...
...spare time, which amounts to little between work and church, Wernher is looking for a better job. His brother has found one, and will soon be leaving ABP. But Wernher says the electronics field is unlikely to offer him any opportunities...
What about moving up at ABP...