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- BUSINESS, Page 55Business NotesLEISUREWhat Tycoons Do for Kicks
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- Figuring the odds and bidding shrewdly are crucial skills
- for such high rollers as billionaire investor Warren Buffett and
- Bear Stearns chairman Alan ("Ace") Greenberg. That makes them
- all the more formidable at a favorite pastime of theirs: bridge.
- After the stock market closes, they bring their talents to
- high-powered card games at New York City's exclusive Regency
- Club. Their frequent opponents include CBS chairman Laurence
- Tisch and centillionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes.
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- The bridge-playing tycoons are much in demand for
- competitive events. This week the four cigar-chomping bigwigs
- and a few well-heeled friends will represent the American
- Contract Bridge League in a London play-off against a British
- team composed of one baroness, one lord and several other
- parliamentarians. "The opposition is in for problems," says
- Forbes. But then again, "the House of Lords probably has more
- time to practice."
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