Other Comprehensive Earnings (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Other Comprehensive Earnings (Thousands of Dollars) [Abstract]

Schedule of comprehensive earnings (loss)

	Pension and Postretirement Amounts	Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments	Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments	Total Accumulated Other Comprehensive Earnings (Loss)
2012	-------------	----------------	----------------	----------------
Balance at Dec. 25, 2011	$ (86,822)	10,081	40,798	(35,943)
Current period other comprehensive earnings (loss)	-	(3,405)	1,113	(2,292)
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Balance at Sept. 30, 2012	$ (86,822)	6,676	41,911	(38,235)
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2011
Balance at Dec. 26, 2010	$ (69,925)	15,432	62,642	8,149
Current period other comprehensive earnings (loss)	-	(13,347)	(9,767)	(23,114)
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Balance at Sept. 25, 2011	$ (69,925)	2,085	52,875	(14,965)
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- 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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