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Defined Benefit Plan, Effect Of One-Percentage Point Change In Assumed Health Care Cost Trend Rate, One Percent Increase [Abstract]

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82843861&loc=d3e1928-114920

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