'Pretend contract is less': advice to Adams
Our financial guru has some advice for Steven Adams, who has been given a $142 million NBA contract.
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Shooter, 73, a 'pay to play cop'
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Oklahoma votes to execute prisoners by suffocation
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Politician opponent 'a robot'
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