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Climate change, he claimed to audible gasps, was "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and was lumbering European countries with expensive energy costs compared to fossil fuels.

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That summer, Fisher said, no matter what he did, the bears kept lumbering back into town.

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And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.

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In consequence, our civic machinery was, and still can be, lumberingly ineffective.

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Instead, the lumbering William “Refrigerator” Perry got the handoff and scored.

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