Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Employee Benefit Plans

	Three Months Ended
	March 31
Defined Benefit Pension Plans Net Periodic Pension Cost	U.S. Plans						International Plans
(In thousands)	2016			2015			2016			2015
Service cost	$	946		$	722		$	404		$	438
Interest cost	2,545			3,089			7,123			9,189
Expected return on plan assets	(3,601		)	(4,203		)	(11,463		)	(12,674		)
Recognized prior service costs	16			20			44			49
Recognized loss	1,372			1,230			3,218			4,235
Defined benefit pension plans net periodic pension cost	$	1,278		$	858		$	(674	)	$	1,237

The Company has changed the method utilized to estimate the 2016 service cost and interest cost components of net periodic pension cost ("NPPC") for defined benefit pension plans. The more precise application of discount rates for measuring both service costs and interest costs employs yield curve spot rates on a year-by-year expected cash flow basis, using the same yield curves that the Company has previously used. This change in method decreased the Company's NPPC by approximately $2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016 compared to what NPPC would have been under the prior method. For additional information related to this change in method, please refer to Part II, Item 7, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015.

	Three Months Ended
Company Contributions	March 31
(In thousands)	2016		2015
Defined benefit pension plans (U.S.)	$	470	$	682
Defined benefit pension plans (International)	9,798		16,066
Multiemployer pension plans	521		565
Defined contribution pension plans	2,826		3,448

The Company's estimate of expected contributions to be paid during the remainder of 2016 for the U.S. and international defined benefit plans are $1.6 million and $9.7 million, respectively.