| 41. | But many Democrats admit that the issue lost some of its political clout when voters started to equate environmentalists with " tree huggers ."
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| 42. | Yet, Burke's a bundle of contradictions : A cowboy in a Stetson on the one hand, a tree hugger on the other.
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| 43. | _A " tree hugger " does not literally wrap himself around the bark; it's a pejorative term for an environmental activist.
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| 44. | DeMayo blames the local media and a pack of " tree huggers " for keeping the issue in local newspaper headlines for the past month.
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| 45. | "We know that Pajaro . . . was sacrificed for the tree huggers and environmentalists, " said Pajaro-area strawberry grower Clint Miller.
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| 46. | It is a First Amendment right of free speech for the tree huggers to save the forests and defeat those who would sell those trees for industrial use.
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| 47. | "These results do not amount to a declaration of war against tree huggers, " noted Robert Hahn, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute.
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| 48. | "A majority of the guys, they won't admit it, " said biker Calvo, " but they're really tree huggers.
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| 49. | Vickers, railing at what he calls " tree huggers " in state government, argues that infected carcasses in landfills are time bombs waiting to go off.
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| 50. | The twelfth season episode of " The Simpsons " called " Lisa the Tree Hugger " was conceived when writer Matt Selman heard a news story about Hill.
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