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It is a PR showdown as well and involves some of the biggest beasts in the game.

But if we define showdown as a decisive confrontation, then at least one half of the fight's moniker was entirely apt.

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats are inching toward the majority they need to pass health care legislation, giving them added confidence as they work out the last details of the bill and gird for a showdown as soon as this weekend.

Tehran's unwillingness to make concessions so far, some analysts argue, reflects its conviction that the United States will not precipitate a showdown as long as Mr. Obama's re-election hangs in the balance.

Bowing to the extraordinary public interest in yesterday's argument on affirmative action, the Supreme Court agreed to release an audio recording of the historic two-hour legal showdown as soon as it ended.

Ms. Valentine, the co-producer of "Showdown" as well as its vampy hostess, dates the beginning more specifically to the founding in 1997 of New York's first neo-burlesque troupe, the Va Va Voom Room, and says the genre has been growing exponentially since around 2002.

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Given the issues in Washington, plenty could change between now and then with Congress veering toward multiple fiscal showdowns as well as difficult debates over gun control and immigration law.

As a result, the stage appears to be set for a military showdown -- possibly as soon as Tuesday -- between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban.

In all "constitutional showdowns," as they put it, the powers that make and judge law have to defer to the power that administers the law.

At times, the G.A.O.'s work involves high-level showdowns, as in 2002, when the agency sued Vice President Dick Cheney for records on the White House's energy task force.

In 2005, Ms. Sterger, then an unknown undergraduate at Florida State University, caught the eye of Mr. Musburger — the folksy, flirty play-by-play man for many big college football showdowns as she stood in the stands at a game, right up front, cheering on her team wearing a cowboy hat, denim short-shorts and an amply filled bikini.

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