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Defined Benefit Plan Effect Of a Quarter-Percentage Point Increase of the assumed annual salary increase Rate On the Projected Benefit Obligation.

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Amount of effect of a one-percentage-point decrease in the assumed health care cost trend rates on the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation for health care benefits.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (m)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65897934&loc=d3e1928-114920

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