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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.

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

There were also upward revisions for July and August.

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.

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