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Word: plataforma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bargains are harder to locate in South America, where many businesses gear their prices to whatever wealthy tourists are willing to spend. Nightclubbers currently pay $13 a person for the show at Rio's Plataforma I; it was $10 last year and $7 in 1980. Says Club Director Jota Martins: "We don't think our prices are high. They may be so for the average Brazilian, but the average Brazilian does not come here." Nonetheless, travelers can find some buys in South American countries. At La Costa Verde restaurant near Lima, a leisurely seafood lunch with drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the World's a Bargain | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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