Diamond was born in New York City to an upper-middle-class Jewish household.

One morning a letter arrives at the perfectly ordered upper-middle-class household of Sudhindra Bose.

Wills show that many upper-middle-class households had upward of 600 towels and pieces of linen.

In fact, she was born 34 years ago, and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire in what she calls a "typical, upper-middle-class suburban household."

The pay increases for upper-middle-class and wealthy households, on the other hand, stem largely from healthy jumps in how much they earn each hour.

Mr. Meyer suggests that servants and women in middle-class and upper-middle-class households did the time-consuming work while the men were free to follow their inclinations.

Before all the globetrotting, Mr. Bernstein was rooted on the Upper East Side, where he was raised in a fairly typical upper-middle-class Jewish household.

The arrangement, he noted, is parallel to that of the upper-middle-class household at the turn of the century.

Most clients come from upper-middle-class, single-dog households.

It found that broadband has the highest penetration among upper-middle-class households, suggesting that price remains a factor in decisions to get high-speed connections.