Comprehensive Income (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

The difference between comprehensive income and net income was due to foreign currency translation adjustments and pension and other post-retirement benefit adjustments, as summarized below:


	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2012			2011
	(in thousands)
Net income	$	487,816		$	430,159
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation		29,727			(37,547	)
Pension and other post-retirement benefit adjustments:
Recognition of prior service credit, net of tax		(3,715	)		(3,931	)
Recognition of actuarial loss, net of tax		35,181			14,438

Total other comprehensive income (loss)		61,193			(27,040	)

Comprehensive income	$	549,009		$	403,119

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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