Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Compensation And Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Note 9 - Employee benefit plans:

Defined benefit plans - The components of net periodic defined benefit pension cost are presented in the table below.

	Three months ended
	March 31,
	2015			2016
	(In millions)
Service cost	$	2.9		$	2.5
Interest cost		4.0			3.8
Expected return on plan assets		(4.6	)		(3.8	)
Amortization of prior service cost		.2			.2
Recognized actuarial losses		3.5			2.8
Total	$	6.0		$	5.5

Postretirement benefits - The components of net periodic postretirement benefits other than pension (OPEB) cost are presented in the table below.

	Three months ended
	March 31,
	2015			2016
	(In millions)
Interest cost	$	.1		$	.1
Amortization of prior service credit		(.2	)		(.2	)
Recognized actuarial loss		.1			-
Total	$	-		$	(.1	)

 Contributions - We expect our 2016 contributions for our pension and other postretirement plans to be approximately $16 million.