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</html>";s:4:"text";s:30386:"Lewis was active in DC-10 sales in an intense competition with Lockheed's L-1011, a rival tri-jet aircraft.  Now the McDonnell name, synonymous for so many years with St. Louis and a point of great civic pride--as well as the city's largest private employer-- will fade into the background when his company is acquired by Boeing Co. It will help us in the long run," she said. The merger in 1997 of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas was, like much of the industry&#x27;s consolidation in the 1990s, a product of the peace dividend.  The MD-90 continued the narrowbody competition with Boeing and Airbus. The two companies began to sound each other out about a merger in 1963. [7] Seconds later, at 8:58a.m. CST,[4] the plane struck the roof of McDonnell Building 101 on the northeast side of the airport. [55][56] At its peak in mid-1990, McDonnell Douglas employed 132,500 people, but  dropped to about 87,400 by the end of 1992. 3901 A Avenue Building 10500 Fort Lee, VA 23801 . McDonnell Douglas DC-10 performed its maiden flight on August 29th, 1970. ", "MD-95'S future uncertain  Boeing to phase uut MD-80, MD-90", "MD-90 Airliner unveiled by McDonnell Douglas: firm seeks to stay in civilian aircraft business", "BUMPY FLIGHT AT MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Even before two DC-10 crashes, it was beset by defense cutbacks and factory foul-ups. It has some real cool exhibits such as a full scale training mock-up of the Mercury space capsule manufactured by McDonald-Douglas. This 1987 photograph shows the expansive production facilities of McDonnell Douglas that are now Douglas Park. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), is a US employment law case by the United States Supreme Court regarding the burdens and nature of proof in proving a Title VII case and the order in which plaintiffs and defendants present proof. The third stage (S-IVB), built by McDonnell Douglas in Huntington Beach, California, had one J-2 engine and used the same fuel as the S-II. Douglas offered bid invitations from December 1966 and accepted that of McDonnell.  This included the first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924, using a Douglas World Cruiser aircraft. Title: Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA Creator (s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator Related Names: Douglas, Donald Douglas Aircraft Company , owner McDonnell Aircraft Company Taylor, Edward Cray , architect Taylor, Ellis Wing , architect  The DC-10 was planned to continue this and also compete strongly with the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. Despite the merger and loss of the McDonnell Douglas brand, much still remains. Years of litigation would proceed over the contract's termination: the government claimed that the contractors had defaulted on the contract and were not entitled to the final progress payments, while McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics believed that the contract was terminated out of convenience, and thus the money was owed. McDonnell Douglas then introduced a major reorganization called the Total Quality Management System (TQMS). [58] Due to the less-than-expected performance figures, Singapore Airlines cancelled its 20-aircraft MD-11 order on August 2, 1991, and ordered 20 A340-300s instead. Media . [74] In 1986, after McDonnell Douglas reduced its control, Sanus announced a partnership with St. Louis pharmacy chain Medicare-Glaser Corp. to form Express Scripts to provide drugs for the Sanus HMO. One of the people most closely tied to McDonnell Douglas-- Chairman John McDonnell, one of the founder's two sons--helped to arrange the deal. ", Earle Harbison, the former president of Monsanto Corp., a longtime civic leader and part of a family that has lived in St. Louis for five generations, said the combination of the two companies "couldn't have been designed any better in heaven. 3 has been one of the city&#x27;s landmark manufacturing buildings since.  Branson would certainly have the funds to make a competitive offer to buy the old C-17 production site. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title.  Widebody development continued as well. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock) Photo Details / Download Hi-Res. But Stonecipher was cutting a Dick Cheneylike figure, blasting the companys engineers as arrogant and spouting Harry Trumanisms (I dont give em hell; I just tell the truth and they think its hell) when they shot back that he was the problem. The Boeing Phantom Works (formerly McDonnell-Douglas) in St. Louis, MO, built the X-36, in a cooperative agreement with NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. Development costs for the DC-10, along with commitments to the Vietnam War, were taking their toll. By 2006, this chapter had been all but closed. On the tarmac, Condit stepped out of the jet, made a brief speech, then boarded a helicopter for an aerial tour of Boeings new corporate home: the Morton Salt building, a skyscraper sitting just out of the Loop in downtown Chicago. Google purchased the hangar that once held the Howard Hughes massive "Spruce Goose" flying boat in Los Angeles Playa Vista neighborhood and is in the process of turning it into office space, as well. If theyre no longer honoring that as their central mission, then over time theyll just become another company..  [3], See then elected to perform a visual circling approach, a simplified landing procedure allowing flight under instrument rules, as long as the pilot can keep the airfield and any preceding aircraft in sight. The McDonnell Douglas story starts with its last name - Douglas, as in Donald W. Douglas. Manufactured in an amount of about 1200 units, the F-15 is one of the most. It has played a significant role in aircraft and aviation development, competing in many ways over its lifetime. All Rights Reserved. Variants of it continued in use in the Navy for almost 50 years,[9] finally serving in large numbers in a two-seat version as a jet trainer.[10]. Passenger jets in Seattle. He was highly respected within his industry, and his products speak for themselves. McDonnell & Associates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1926. Others are visible at the time, in plain sight. That led to speculation that the C-17 production line could restart. . In the summer of 1940, Donald Douglas, president of the fast-growing Douglas Aircraft Company, and his vice president, Carl Cover, flew to Daugherty Field (now the Long Beach Airport) to inspect a potential site for an aircraft manufacturing facility. Still, as he left work last week, Dana said he was looking around and wondering how long the McDonnell name would remain on the walls and signposts. [7], Both astronauts died instantly from trauma sustained in the crash. It produces light utility helicopters for commercial and military use. When the two aircraft emerged below the clouds shortly before 9 am, both pilots realized that they had missed the outer marker and overshot the runway. A similar double deck concept was used in Boeing's later Ultra-Large Aircraft study intended to replace the 747,[62][63] but ultimately the double deck concept would not see the light of day until the Airbus A380 in the 2000s. Maintenance and modernization of the current C-17 fleet still takes place in Southern California. This came to an end in 1997 with its merger with Boeing - but of course, much of the company lives on. [1] The prototype, a modified MD 530F, had made its first flight on November 22, 1994. If Andrew Carnegies advicePut all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that baskethad guided Boeing before, these decisions accomplished roughly the opposite. The plant began manufacturing the DC-10, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying 380 passengers. Its now clear that long before the software lost track of its planes true bearings, Boeing lost track of its own. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a United States . The weather was poor with rain, snow, fog, and low clouds. The late 1980s were a time of prosperity for McDonnell Douglas, and brought about the C-17 Globemaster III, a massive cargo plane that was manufactured in Long Beach until just a few years ago. [70][71], By the 1970s, McAuto had 3,500 employees and $170 million worth of computer equipment. The facilities that previously housed the C-17 production line are to the left. But rebooting a production line involves significant costs and time, and Boeing was already evaluating options for the Long Beach property, company spokesman Todd Blecher said in an email. The earlier version also identified an Air Force official as a man. Bill McClellan, a columnist at the newspaper, said in an interview that St. Louis already is a city with an "inferiority complex," so such losses do hurt the communal psyche. "It's just like we can't get a break. Its history, though, is more complicated than that, coming together from the merger of the two much older manufacturers and going on to merge with Boeing. . Like Douglas, it grew significantly during the Second World War, and this continued after - including the development of the popular Phantom II fighter. [3] McDonnell founded J.S. Search 1,116 Karlsruhe architects, architecture firms &amp; building designers to find the best architect or building designer for your project. Theres one thing that made Boeing really great all the way along. Losing McDonnell Douglas makes St. Louis more and more feel like a branch office town. Finance wasnt a primary language.   Nothum, a Boeing spokesperson told the newspaper in June 2018. It was a routine flight that they had made many times previously. Photo: Getty Images, Delta later used the DC-8 for many of its long-haul routes. (Boeing photograph) . [17] However, the loss of the Gemini 9 crew did cause NASA to reshuffle the crew assignments for subsequent Gemini and Apollo missions; Stafford and Cernan were moved up to the primary position for Gemini 9, re-designated Gemini 9A. [2], Douglas had been chief engineer at Martin before leaving to establish Davis-Douglas Company in early 1920 in Los Angeles. A Circular Airport On Top Of A Tube Station, A Brief Guide To The Airbus A320 Family's Main Variants. For about 80 years, Boeing basically functioned as an association of engineers. Indeed, there is reason to see a silver lining in the clouds because McDonnell had been losing out on some major business. The original building where McDonnell began to make parts for aircraft companies in 1939 no longer exists. The first round of bids will be due in mid-December, according to NKF Capital Markets, the real estate brokerage working with Boeing. It wasnt just technical knowledge that was lost, Aboulafia said. The present 737 Max disaster can be traced back two decadesto the moment Boeings leadership decided to divorce itself from the firms own culture. By DuneBug2 &quot; Hidden Gem &quot;  [43][54] McDonnell Douglas built only a small wind tunnel test model. He left Martin in 1938 to try again with his own firm, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, this time based at Lambert Field, outside St. Louis, Missouri.[4]. The company was already McDonnell Douglas, and it expanded an existing building to create the factory. Construction on the plant, Douglass third in Southern California, began in November of that year. It was clear to most in the industry that MDC had neither the resources nor the money to develop such a large aircraft,[61] and the study quickly sank without a trace. McDonnell Douglas had developed and first started production of the C-17 at the site in 1991. But the company is located in the same spot near St. Louis where the Arkansas native started out and built his company over the decades into a major manufacturer of military aircraft, merging with Douglas Aircraft in 1967. [2] After some delay, Stafford and Cernan were asked to identify themselves and given permission to land, but they were not informed of the crash until on the ground. Virgin Orbit is building a rocket that will drop from the wing of a flying Boeing 747 airplane and carry satellites the rest of the way into space. An earlier version of this story said Douglas Aircraft Co. built the C-17 factory in the late 1980s, before becoming McDonnell Douglas Corp. Joy and well-being in Karlsruhe&#x27;s quiet southwest city. 3:15 p.m. Nov. 7, 2018:   An earlier version of this story said Douglas Aircraft Co. built the C-17 factory in the late 1980s, before becoming McDonnell Douglas Corp. At the height of the production effort at Douglass Long Beach plant, the facility was turning out one plane per hour. This included the first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924, using a Douglas World Cruiser aircraft. Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, who had formerly been the backup for Gemini 10, became the back-up crew for Gemini 9A, and through the normal rotation were then assigned as prime crew for the 1966's Gemini 12. [34], In 1977, the next generation of DC-9 variants, dubbed the "Super 80" (later renamed the MD-80) series, was launched.[35]. His idea was to produce a personal aircraft for family use. Bassett was decapitated on impact; his severed head was found later in the day in the rafters of the damaged assembly building. [34][60] Despite briefly leaving the market, the study was perceived as merely a public relations exercise to disguise the fact that MDC was struggling under intense pressure from Boeing and Airbus. The US$4.83 billion contract was to develop the A-12 Avenger II, a stealth, carrier-based, long-range flying wing attack aircraft that would replace the A-6 Intruder . Box 516 St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0516 U.S.A. Telephone: (314) 232-0232 Fax: (314) 234-3826 Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1967 Employees: 70,016 Sales: $14.47 billion Stock Exchanges: New York Its CFO (ex-McDonnell) was caught violating government procurement laws and went to jail. 2022Recurrent Ventures. Despite interest from airlines, there were no orders. The DC-8 and its subsequent versions held a 14-year production run in Long Beach. Most of the 23,000 employees in the St. Louis area are expected to stay, company officials said, with losses mostly coming from duplication at the middle-management level. The downside, Harbison said, is that St. Louis loses the corporate headquarters and the daily participation of the chief executive and chairman--not only the money they give and the time they are willing to spend in the community, but their voice and their leadership. The flight that put the Boeing Company on course for disaster lifted off a few hours after sunrise. Boeings top management plus staffroughly 500 people in allwould work here. It was changed after the merger to integrate the two companies' previous logos. Another $45 million building was constructed at the southwest corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street, as well as an office facility built directly across the street, opening in 1989. Its CAD program MicroGDS remains in use with the latest official version 11.3 issued in June 2013. Douglas' success continued long after the Second World War. The MD-90 was a stretched version of the MD-80,[46] equipped with International Aero Engines V2500 turbofans, the largest rear-mounted engines ever on a commercial jet. As concessions, Boeing agreed to cease exclusive supply deals and also to license patents to other manufacturers. The property is adjacent to Long Beach Airport and includes two primary manufacturing buildings and multiple additional structures. The McDonnell two-place, twinjet, all-weather F-4 Phantom II, with top speeds more than twice that of sound, was one of the most versatile fighters ever built. The MD-80 (developed from the DC-9) first flew in 1980 with Swissair.  [5][6] See turned on his afterburner to increase power while pulling up and turning hard right. Noting that McDonnell Douglas had reacted to changes in the international defense and aerospace industry, not to problems it had been having locally, Fleming said the company had to adjust to competitive realities in the global economy. Once the plane was airborne, Boeing announced it would be landing at Chicagos Midway International Airport. Subsequent models of the plane were built through the 1980s and 90s. The difference between doing MCAS right and MCAS wrong was not an economic thing. Its a very different dynamic. 3:15 p.m. Nov. 7, 2018An earlier version of this story said Douglas Aircraft Co. built the C-17 factory in the late 1980s, before becoming McDonnell Douglas Corp. The latter still stands today. Sovereign, largely a Data Entry solution, had a reasonable market in the United States supporting data entry shops. Douglas also made commercial jets, producing the DC-8 in 1958 to compete with the Boeing 707. In 1961, Douglas Aircraft split into two divisions, with the Aircraft Division based in Long Beach. St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corporation had built and modified aircraft at Air Force Plant No. But it made sense for both companies going forward. Journalist - With almost a decade of experience in the publishing sphere, Justin has built up a deep understanding of the issues facing aviation today. If in fact theres a reverse takeover, with the McDonnell ethos permeating Boeing, then Boeing is doomed to mediocrity, the business scholar Jim Collins told me back in 2000. From us it is a 10-minute walk to the city centre, 8 minutes to the ZKM cinema/museum and . In the 1980s, the company also began producing the MD-80, a more fuel-efficient commercial liner that turned out to be an entry point into the market of the Peoples Republic of China. Shortly thereafter, Boeing put the majority of its property surrounding Lakewood Boulevard up for sale. Bringing thousands of people together from two competing companies is never easy (in fact, it was from three companies, as Boeing acquired Rockwell around the same time). Although the site cannot claim to boast the same kind of employment numbers as it had at its peak in World War II, Douglas Park has risen from the dust of aviation history to become a new vision for Long Beach commerce  one with a varied workforce, community amenities, and international brands innovating for the future of several industries, including, yes, aviation and aerospace.  [8] Designed to operate from the decks of the World War II Essex-class aircraft carriers, the Skyhawk was small, reliable, and tough. Douglas had already gone up against Boeing with the DC-8. Post-merger, Stonecipher brought his chain saw to Seattle. And so, on July 30, 1973, the McDonnell-dominated board baulked at a go-ahead for the DC-10 twin. In October 1962, Douglas Aircraft completed its $7 million, nine-story, 83,000-square-foot administrative building and an adjacent (pictured at left) three-story, 304,000-square-foot engineering and product development building. Clocking in at 61.6 meters, the new design could typically hold 298 passengers across three classes. After going into production in January .  In an editorial last Monday, a day after the surprise announcement, the paper commented: "The acquisition is a terrific blow to civic pride. Or that Boeings managers would now have the added challenge of flying all this blindor by instrument, as it wererelying on remote readouts of the situation in Chicago instead of eyeballing it directly (as good pilots are incidentally trained to do). One of the most successful engineering cultures of all time was quickly giving way to the McDonnell mind-set. Another $45 million building was constructed at the southwest corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street, as well as an office facility built directly across the street, opening in 1989. We werent fighting against Boeing, one union leader told me of the 40-day strike that shut down production in 2000. It was the seminal case in the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework.. In 1996, Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas for $13.3 billion in stock, the New York Times reported, and the Long Beach Division of Boeing Commercial Airplanes was born. Boeing bought that firm in 1997, taking over the Globemaster III program and the production facilities in the process. (YF-22A) versus Northrop-McDonnell Douglas (YF-23A). Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, What to expect from Elon Musks third master Tesla plan, Drugmaker Eli Lilly to slash insulin prices, Stocks slip as stubborn inflation raises rate expectations, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. They stood for about 45 years until they were razed to make way for the development of Douglas Park. (formerly McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems) is an American aerospace manufacturer. Meanwhile, Douglas was strained by the cost of the DC-8 and DC-9. With all this in mind, Virgin Orbit might be interested in expanding its footprint near the airport and gaining larger aviation-related facilities that might be well suited to its operations. One to Dallas. The company was a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft until 1984, when McDonnell Douglas acquired it and renamed it McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems. A passion for affordability became one of the companys new, unloved slogans, as did Less family, more team. It was enough to drive the white-collar engineering union, which had historically functioned as a professional debating society, into acting more like organized labor. Fleming, president and chief executive officer of the St. Louis Regional Commerce & Growth Association. Douglas had strong commercial orders, and McDonnell brought revenue to service these. Meanwhile, experienced Boeing engineers rolled their eyes as some software-development tasks (not specific to MCAS) were outsourced to recent college grads earning as little as $9 an hour, who were employed by an Indian subcontractor set up across from Seattles Boeing Field. Air traffic controllers were confused by the two planes in flight attempting different abort actions after the initial missed approach,[7] and no one on the ground knew who was in the crashed plane. On January 13, 1988, McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics won the US Navy Advanced Tactical Aircraft (ATA) contract. [38] Hughes Helicopters was made a subsidiary initially and renamed McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems in August 1984. But he said there was a lot of sentiment about the McDonnell Douglas logo--a circle symbolizing the globe, with a missile shooting up and an airplane gliding off to the right.  It must end, Hyundai was poised to become Teslas top contender. In November, the Defense Department eliminated McDonnell from the competition to build more than 3,000 Joint Strike Fighters, an estimated $200 billion contract. Space in Long Beach. In 1977, the KC-10 Extender was the second McDonnell Douglas transport aircraft to be selected for use by the US Air Force; the first being the C-9 Nightingale/Skytrain II. All three are necessary, but the most important single factor is manpower, for without men and ideas, buildings and machinery are just steel and concrete.. [39] McDonnell Douglas Helicopters's most successful product was the Hughes-designed AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. Stafford began to follow See's plane, but when he lost sight of it in the clouds, he instead followed the standard procedure for a missed approach and pulled his aircraft up, back into the clouds for another attempt at an instrument landing. Though Boeing still provides C-17 related maintenance and other services in Southern California, the production facilities at Long Beach have been idle since the last Globemaster III left the plant in 2015.  [1][54] Boeing introduced a new corporate identity based on the McDonnell Douglas logo, created by graphic designer Rick Eiber. As part of reorganization, 5,000 managerial and supervisory positions were eliminated at Douglas. The merger, of course, was not just about commercial aircraft. In 2008, a company called Long Beach Studios announced it would purchase the former 717-200 manufacturing plant to build a massive movie studio, but the deal fell through when the recession hit. McDonnell's military contracts provided an instant solution for Douglas' cash flow problems, while the revenue from Douglas' civil contracts would be more than enough for McDonnell to withstand peacetime declines in procurement. The company was already McDonnell Douglas, and it expanded an existing building to create the factory. The oil crisis of the 1970s was a serious shock to the commercial aviation industry, as a major manufacturer of commercial aircraft at the time, McDonnell Douglas was hit by the economic shift and forced to contract heavily while diversifying into new areas to reduce the impact of potential future downturns.  [75], The corporation also produced the Sovereign (later M7000) series of systems in the UK, which used the Sovereign operating system developed in the UK and which was not based on Pick, unlike the "Reality" family of systems listed above. the building of the supercritical wing for the DC-X-200 which would feature extensive use of composites, a joint SST effort, military transport, and . It was, top brass felt, an undue amount of contact for executives of a modern, diversified corporation. With ethics now front and center, Condit was forced out and replaced with Stonecipher, who promptly affirmed: When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that its run like a business rather than a great engineering firm. A General Electric alum, he built a virtual replica of GEs famed Crotonville leadership center for Boeing managers to cycle through. Whatever happens, it seems clear that Boeing has no intention of building C-17s at the plant ever again. A major motivation was the growing Boeing order book against McDonnel Douglas's declining production and available capacity to manufacture. But the criticism misses the point, Aboulafia told me. Companies representing a diverse array of industries call the campus home, from automotive parts suppliers to health care providers, engineering firms and more. 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The retained globe image still reminds us of Douglas' early achievement in aerial circumnavigation. The DC-10 was designed and built in Long Beach, California. [28][29][30] In two years, Lewis had the operation back on track and in positive cash flow. McDonnell Douglas Plant Landmark Here Since World War II Mitch Maurer Oct 16, 1993 Updated Feb 25, 2019 0 Air Force Plant No. The company that once didnt speak finance was now, at the top, losing its ability to converse in engineering. In his testimony, he states that he w. McDonnell Douglas was a leading US manufacturer from 1967 until 1997. McDonnell Douglas acquired Microdata Corporation in 1983. If the more than $13 billion McDonnell-Boeing deal is approved by regulators, the new company, with 200,000 employees and annual revenues exceeding $48 billion, will be the world's largest aerospace firm and the only manufacturer of commercial jets in the United States, marrying Boeing's burgeoning commercial airliner business with McDonnell Douglas' expertise in military aircraft.  McDonnell Douglas F-15 Streak Eagle. He worked at three companies with the final being Glenn Martin Company in 1933. Though McDonnell Douglas' name will continue here, it will be as a division, not a headquarters, accelerating the decline of St. Louis as a headquarters city.". In Condits office, overlooking Boeing Field, were 54 white roses to celebrate the days closing stock price. The company would put its eggs in three baskets: military in St. Louis. [15] Douglas created a series of experimental high-speed jet aircraft in the Skyrocket family, with the Skyrocket DB-II being the first aircraft to travel at twice the speed of sound in 1953. [8][11], Since the crash did not affect space flight operations and the spacecraft itself was undamagedit was shipped to NASA two days after the crashthe accident caused neither delays nor engineering changes in the U.S. space program. Theres always the possibility that a real estate firm or some other corporation might turn the space into an office park. The City of Long Beach itself has been looking to acquire the area as part of an urban revitalization project called the Globemaster Corridor, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. In the 1980s, McDonnell Douglas, which owned the Long Beach site at the time, expanded a building there to manufacture C-17 planes. See and Bassett were the prime crew assigned to the Gemini 9 mission. The majority of the property was ultimately purchased and developed by Irvine-based Sares-Regis Group. Tens of thousands of people once worked in the facilitys hangars and on assembly lines to produce planes such as the MD-80 jetliner and the B-17 bomber.  Even when the RAND Corporation conducted a detailed analysis in 2012 of what it might cost to reboot C-17 production after a multi-year pause  close to $8 billion to support the production of up to 150 new derivatives with improved fuel efficiency  the think tank assumed that Boeing would build those planes somewhere else rather than Long Beach. ";s:7:"keyword";s:26:"mcdonnell douglas building";s:5:"links";s:217:"<a href="http://informationmatrix.com/ut6vf54l/my-girlfriend-is-cold-and-unaffectionate">My Girlfriend Is Cold And Unaffectionate</a>,
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