Word: peak
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These are busy times for Rio's thieves, at whose hands the lusty Brazilian city is suffering a public relations disaster. As the tourism season reaches its peak with the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival, the number of crimes committed against foreigners has risen so high that officials have predicted the most lawless Carnival in 25 years. Many tour operators are dropping Rio from their itineraries, and group sales from the U.S. could be down as much as 60% compared with 1988. Hotels that used to be 90% occupied at Carnival time are now only half full...
...single gang like Kavera's claims to hit as many as 30 tourists a day during the peak season, when the sidewalks and beaches are plump with prey. Kavera happily recalls the cameras lying on towels, the bags left unattended. "Tourists can be so stupid," he muses. In January, 26 guests, including Americans, Danes, Austrians and Spaniards, went on a hunger strike at a Copacabana hotel to protest the management's refusal to reimburse them for valuables stolen from 50 of the hotel's 94 safes. "There is no question that crime in Rio, especially violent crime, is increasing," says...
...rubbing raw against conspicuous wealth. The city is broken in half by a mountain range. The Zona Norte is dense, poor and desperately violent. The Zona Sul is laced with fancy apartments, fringed with world-class beaches, home to the rich and the tourists. In between, atop the granite peak of Corcovado, stands the symbol of Rio, a towering statue of Christ, his arms outstretched like a beleaguered mediator trying to keep two street fighters apart...
TRAVEL: In Rio at Carnival, crime and tourism peak...
FEBRUARY 2: My life has hit peak efficiency. I just cleaned my room, stacked seven completed summer job applications in my "Out" box, and finished the first installment of the 12-week LSAT study program. In my spare time, I memorized all the special commands on HOLLIS and worked out my study schedule for next reading period...