Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gravity Boots first started becoming popular after the 1980 film American Gigolo showed Star Richard Gere doing a heels-over-head workout. Subsequent features on the boots on television shows like PM Magazine further boosted sales. Says Gravity Guidance President Bryce Martin, 30: "The movie was really the first time anybody had ever heard of the boots, and we were swamped with orders from all over the country...
Gravity Boots were invented in 1965 by Dr. Robert Martin, 73, Bryce Martin's father. An orthopedic surgeon and onetime vaudeville acrobat, the elder Martin developed the boots to relieve the stress on spines and joints caused by standing and sitting. "I always told my colleagues that we'd all have better posture and no back problems if we could walk around on the ceiling," he says. "It was just a matter of figuring...
While the court was granting absolute immunity to Presidents, it refused to do the same for their aides. Fitzgerald had sued two of Nixon's assistants, Bryce Harlow and Alexander Butterfield, over his job problems. Last week the Justices ruled, 8 to 1, that the aides, like Cabinet officers, enjoy only "qualified" immunity. An official, said the court, would be liable to a suit if he could be expected to know he was violating the law. While technically a defeat for the two Nixon aides, the ruling was in a large sense a victory because the court dropped...
This Administration is being put to a real test for the first time. Reagan faces true adversity from events beyond the White House and from some doubts within. Bryce Harlow, who has wisely interpreted Washington for 40 years, believes that only at such times can one judge the mettle of a President. Harlow, who came to town a Democrat and turned Republican, served both Eisenhower and Nixon at the White House. Along the way, he concluded that successful leadership must harden into the quality of command if a President is going to prevail. That entails both taking political risks...
...Supreme Court," says James Bryce in The American Commonwealth, "feels the touch of public opinion." That is for sure, and there is a further truth: public opinion, or incensed parts of it, sometimes tries to reach the federal judiciary with a bit more than a touch-with a brisk left hook, say, or a fast right cross. One of those times is at hand: congressional leaders of the New Right are avidly mounting a serious assault on the power, authority and prestige of the federal courts...