upward

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These days, the game’s elite passers command contracts worth upward of $50 million annually and eat up giant chunks of the salary cap.

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Now some of those economists are revising their global growth predictions upward.

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There were also upward revisions for July and August.

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By the time firefighters arrived about 10 minutes later, the tower was ablaze, the flames traveling upward through the bamboo scaffolding and netting—and soon jumping to other buildings in the complex.

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Inflation has been persistent in Japan, with a weak yen posing a renewed risk of upward pressure on import prices.

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