Maximum Number of Days After Full Vesting for Dividends to be Paid

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
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-Publisher SEC
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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Equity Incentive Programs (Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Activity Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	$ 27.0
Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of days dividends will be paid after vesting, maximum	45 days
Award vesting period	3 years
Compensation expense	$ 5.1	$ 4.4
Estimated future compensation expense	27.0
Estimated Future Expense in 2017 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	10.2
Estimated Future Expense in 2017 [Member] \| Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	10.2
Estimated Future Expense in 2018 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	9.9
Estimated Future Expense in 2018 [Member] \| Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	9.9
Estimated Future Expense in 2019 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	6.0
Estimated Future Expense in 2019 [Member] \| Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	6.0
Estimated Future Expense in 2020 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	0.9
Estimated Future Expense in 2020 [Member] \| Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Estimated future compensation expense	$ 0.9