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Despotic noblemen repressed the peasants so harshly that an army led by György Dózsa rose in rebellion in 1514, but the insurrection failed; Dózsa was roasted alive and the serfs’ condition continued to decline.
Business and Industrial Council's Educational Foundation, is simultaneously writing position papers on foreign policy for the harshly conservative Cato Institute and supplying factoids for presidential hopeful Gephardt's speeches on trade policy.
Trent Lott, who last week harshly criticized the deal Annan brokered with Iraq, said he didn't have time to meet with him.
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
Indeed, the paper reports that the judge "harshly chastised" the Secret Service for continuing to fight Kenneth Starr on this point.