Now, as the battle nears a legal showdown, the company name on the tongue of nearly every trader is Macmillan Inc.

And indeed, as the papers point out, he openly admits he took this extra step to encourage a legal showdown.

A legal showdown began here today that could determine whether some of the biotechnology industry's most lucrative drugs will be vulnerable to lower-priced competition.

Since then, the four suicides he has attended have come under circumstances that sometimes seemed designed to provoke a legal showdown.

The hearing was a preview of the legal showdown next year between Microsoft and its rivals over the proposed consent decree.

He may not be referring to only the dollar cost of a legal showdown.

The criminal matter has further been described as Denmark's legal showdown with "Tvind".

It has been said that Thomas J. Spargo never met a legal or political showdown he did not embrace.

Hollywood has witnessed this sort of legal showdown before.

The law will force a legal showdown before it ever comes into effect, an outcome its supporters, eager to overturn Roe, intended.