Word: croissant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prices vary from 85 cents for an eight-ounce cup of coffee to $2.10 for Cappuccino. The Coffee Connection in the Garage offers identical prices, though those of Au Bon Pain, Express and Croissant du Jour are lower...
Despite the renovation, a sense of Manifest Destiny grandeur and industrial heft remains. Diesel locomotives will use the station as well as croissant- eating lawyers. "This isn't a suburban mall," says Benjamin Thompson, the renovation and revitalization architect, based in Cambridge, Mass., who designed the new retail spaces. "This is Washington, D.C. We wanted to maintain Union Station as a transportation center." Until Amtrak service is fully restored, within a year, rail passengers will continue to use a dreary annex built in 1975, when Park Service officials turned the main station into a tourist-information bureau. The National Visitor...
...ratings. I'm talking about the stuff we don't want any more. Millions of tons of waste--garbage, platics, hazardous waste, and even radioactive material--are produced by Americans every day. And the typical person doesn't even think he's contributing to a problem when tossing a croissant wrapper in a waste basket...
...seems like a terrific idea to me," said a croissant-munching customer who was leaning against the wall. "Just look around, there's not a seat in the house...
...addition, the insititution's presence reportedly pumps more than $1 million into the local economy. And don't forget all those high tech research firms and croissant eating yuppies who flock to share the same city with one of the world's greatest institutions...