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Brutal winds and heavy rains lashed Jamaica on Monday ahead of Hurricane Melissa unleashing what the prime minister warned could be a massively destructive storm -- the island's most violent on record.

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“We will likely get some violent rotations out of the AI trade on the bigger picture upward path, given how correlated so much of the market is to the AI trade,” Parker says.

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If Powell delivers a message too cautious for the data that eventually comes out, or too aggressive for what investors are bracing for, the reaction could be violent.

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The father of the Southport killer warned a teacher who attempted to visit him at home that the teenager may become violent if forced to see him, a public inquiry heard.

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"Rest assured, I wasn't drunk, violent, or even late. No, my sin was having Parkinson's," he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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