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Employee Benefit Plans
9 Months Ended
Oct. 02, 2011
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] 
Employee Benefit Plans
Employee Benefit Plans
The following table summarizes the components of net periodic benefit cost (credit) for the Company’s various defined benefit employee pension and postretirement plans for the three and nine months ended October 2, 2011 and October 3, 2010:
 
 
Defined Benefit
Pension Benefits
 
Postretirement
Medical Benefits
 
Three Months Ended
 
October 2,
2011
 
October 3,
2010
 
October 2,
2011
 
October 3,
2010
 
(In thousands)
Service cost
$
971

 
$
1,153

 
$
23

 
$
20

Interest cost
6,331

 
6,234

 
43

 
48

Expected return on plan assets
(6,072
)
 
(6,029
)
 
(220
)
 
(213
)
Amortization of prior service
(54
)
 
(46
)
 
(63
)
 
(78
)
Recognition of actuarial losses (gains)
2,245

 
2,179

 
(19
)
 
(23
)
Net periodic benefit cost (credit)
$
3,421

 
$
3,491

 
$
(236
)
 
$
(246
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Defined Benefit
Pension Benefits
 
Postretirement
Medical Benefits
 
Nine Months Ended
 
October 2,
2011
 
October 3,
2010
 
October 2,
2011
 
October 3,
2010
 
(In thousands)
Service cost
$
2,899

 
$
3,592

 
$
68

 
$
76

Interest cost
18,940

 
18,765

 
128

 
153

Expected return on plan assets
(18,202
)
 
(17,759
)
 
(660
)
 
(624
)
Amortization of prior service
(160
)
 
(135
)
 
(190
)
 
(236
)
Recognition of actuarial losses (gains)
6,732

 
6,214

 
(56
)
 
(36
)
Net periodic benefit cost (credit)
$
10,209

 
$
10,677

 
$
(710
)
 
$
(667
)

During the three months ended October 3, 2010, the Company made a voluntary contribution of $30.0 million for the 2009 plan year to its defined benefit pension plan in the United States, to realize the benefit received from favorable tax provisions included in the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009.