Pension and Other Postemployment Benefits

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

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Pension and Other Postemployment Benefits

Defined Benefit Pension Plans

The components of net periodic benefit cost for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 were (dollars in millions):

	2011			2010
Service cost	$	4.1		$	2.8
Interest cost	3.8			3.8
Expected return on plan assets	(1.8		)	(1.8		)
Amortization of prior service cost	2.4			2.0
Amortization of actuarial (gains) losses	0.4			0.2
Curtailments and settlements	—			1.3
	$	8.9		$	8.3

We contributed approximately $4.9 million and $4.1 million to our defined benefit pension plans for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

Postemployment Arrangements

The components of net periodic benefit cost for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 were (dollars in millions):

	2011		2010
Service cost	$	2.9	$	1.4
Interest cost	3.5		2.9
Expected return on plan assets	N/A		N/A
Amortization of prior service cost	1.6		0.5
Amortization of actuarial (gains) losses	0.5		0.7
	$	8.5	$	5.5