upper

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Ground-floor tickets generally cost around a dollar, while cheap seats in the upper balconies were usually just a dime, making vaudeville accessible to rich and poor alike.

From The Wall Street Journal

In its analysis of December rents, Realtor.com dug into rents in the upper and lower segments of the market, and found that affordability improved more for higher-income tenants compared to their lower-income peers.

From MarketWatch

Those include prime ministerial term limits, a new upper house of parliament, stronger presidential powers and greater judicial independence.

From Barron's

Among the constitutional reforms envisaged are prime ministerial term limits, a directly elected upper house of parliament, stronger presidential powers and increased judicial independence.

From BBC

Its dimensions place it at the upper limit of what scientists have proposed, and in one instance observed, on the Moon.

From Science Daily