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Teen dies while climbing Los Angeles bridge in apparent social media stunt

Teen fell ‘when climbing upon one of the arches, in order to post, apparently, a social media broadcast’ said police chief

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But the pandemic has made me realize that I’m not sure how much I’ll really need to have salted away to protect my family and to keep our solidly middle-class standard of living intact, both now and into the future.


How Berkshire Hathaway May Have Been Snookered in Germany
By Jack Ewing
A unit of Warren Buffett’s empire paid an inflated price for a pipe maker that used fake sales to look profitable, an arbitration panel concluded. The firm was close to bankruptcy. He's an excellent snooker player, but he's never won a major trophy.

Doughnut (driving) - Wikipedia

A doughnut or donut is a manoeuvre performed while driving a vehicle. Performing this manoeuvre entails rotating the rear or front of the vehicle around the opposite set of wheels in a continuous motion, creating (ideally) a circular skid-mark ...

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stunt

noun [ C ]

UK 

 /stʌnt/ US 

 /stʌnt/

stunt noun [C] (EXCITING ACTION)

 

an exciting action, usually in a film, that is dangerous or appears dangerous and usually needs to be done by someone skilled:

It's a typical action movie with plenty of spectacular stunts.

Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals.

salt sth away

— phrasal verb with salt verb [ T ]

UK 

 /sɒlt/ US 

 /sɑːlt/

informal

to save something, often money, secretly:

He salted away a fortune over the years and no one ever knew!

snooker

verb [ T ]

UK 

 /ˈsnuː.kər/ US 

 /ˈsnuː.kɚ/

UK informal

to prevent someone from finishing an intended plan of action:

We had intended to go driving around Scotland, but unless I can get my licence we're snookered.