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...Blueshirt Group, a boutique investor-relations firm in San Francisco, makes extensive use of IM. But Erica Abrams, 37, a partner in the firm, has opted out. After trying IM for about a year, she removed it from her PC. "It bothered me too much," she says. She found the constant pinging of messages intrusive and ultimately overwhelming. "Why bother?" she asked. "My clients are satisfied with my service already. I'm not sure I need to be more responsive than that. Isn't e-mail fast enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Swarm of Little Notes | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Such funds are appropriated by most European governments, but Farouk was suspicious that the money was intended for the coffers of Premier Nahas' Wafdist & Blueshirt organizations. Again Farouk balked. Adviser Maher acted for him, accepted a compromise sum of $70,000. Then the King tried his hand with an ultimatum. Anxious to get rid of the armed Blueshirts. Farouk gave his Cabinet an overnight choice: dissolve the organization or hand in their resignations as Ministers. At the last minute, Premier Nahas came forward with a compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: King v. Cabinet | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Since March, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, wild-eyed Fascist son of Spain's former dictator, has languished in Madrid's new model prison charged with inciting insurrection through his blueshirted followers, the Falange Espanola. Last week Blueshirt de Rivera was in court again. Detectives searching his home had found two pistols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red-hot Blue shirt | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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