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Tributes have started to come in with hip hop star Tyler the Creator posting a black and white photo and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy calling him an icon.

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“The No. 1 public enemy of personal finance is inflation. Nothing makes your money go less far than inflation. It looks like you have money but it buys half as much,” said Steve Azoury, a financial adviser and owner of Azoury Financial in Troy, Mich.

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To hear prosecutors tell it, Jose Landa-Rodriguez was public enemy No. 1.

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She was celebrated in music with her name featured in songs including the 1998 song "Rebel Without a Pause" by hip hop group Public Enemy and "A Song for Assata" by the rapper Common.

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There are more than 1,400 pests and diseases on the government's plant health risk register, but Ips has been labelled "public enemy number one".

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

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