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Restructuring Charges (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Restructuring Charges (Tables) [Abstract]

The following table summarizes the Company's restructuring reserves activity for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009:

(Millions)		Severance^(a)		Other^(b)		Total
Liability balance as of December 31, 2008		$	365	$	62^??	$	427
	Restructuring charges, net of $52 in revisions^(c)		161		24^??		185
	Payments		(287)		(45)		(332)
	Other non-cash^(d)		14		(9)		5
Liability balance as of December 31, 2009			253		32		285
	Restructuring charges, net of $27 in revisions^(c)		98		(2)		96
	Payments		(141)		(14)		(155)
	Other non-cash^(d)		(11)		―		(11)
Liability balance as of December 31, 2010			199		16		215
	Restructuring charges, net of $27 in revisions^(e)		96		23		119
	Payments		(121)		(8)		(129)
	Other non-cash^(d)		(4)		(1)		(5)
Liability balance as of December 31, 2011^(f)		$	170	$	30^??	$	200

Accounted for in accordance with GAAP governing the accounting for nonretirement postemployment benefits and for costs associated with exit or disposal activities.
Other primarily includes facility exit, asset impairment and contract termination costs.
Revisions primarily relate to higher than anticipated redeployments of displaced employees to other positions within the Company.
Consists primarily of foreign exchange impacts. During 2009, the amounts in other also include asset impairments directly related to restructuring activity.
Net revisions of $27 million were recorded in the Company's reportable operating segments and Corporate & Other as follows: $21 million in USCS, $(2) million in ICS, $(5) million in GCS, $8 million in GNMS and $5 million in Corporate & Other. These revisions primarily relate to higher employee redeployments to other positions within the Company, business changes and modifications to existing initiatives.
The majority of cash payments related to the remaining restructuring liabilities are expected to be completed in 2012, and to a lesser extent certain contractual long-term severance arrangements and lease obligations are expected to be completed in 2013 and 2019, respectively.

Restructuring charges, by reportable segment

The following table summarizes the Company's restructuring charges, net of revisions, by reportable operating segment and Corporate & Other for the year ended December 31, 2011, and the cumulative amounts relating to the restructuring programs that were in progress during 2011 and initiated at various dates between 2008 and 2011.

			Cumulative Restructuring Expense Incurred To Date On
	2011		In-Progress Restructuring Programs
	Total Restructuring
	Charges, net of
(Millions)	revisions			Severance		Other		Total
USCS	$	(10)	$	58	$	6	$	64
ICS		29		84		2		86
GCS		37		239		18		257
GNMS		(1)		30		9		39
Corporate & Other		64		72		40		112	^(a)
Total	$	119	$	483	$	75	$	558	^(b)

Corporate & Other includes certain severance and other charges of $108 million, related to Company-wide support functions which were not allocated to the Company's reportable operating segments, as these were corporate initiatives, which is consistent with how such charges were reported internally.
As of December 31, 2011, the total expenses to be incurred for previously approved restructuring activities that were in progress are not expected to be materially different than the cumulative expenses incurred to date for these programs, except for those 2012 charges noted above.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of restructuring and related costs by type of restructuring including the description of the restructuring costs, such as the expected cost; the costs incurred during the period; the cumulative costs incurred as of the balance sheet date; the income statement caption within which the restructuring charges recognized for the period are included; and changes to an entity's restructuring reserve that occurred during the period associated with the exit from or disposal of business activities or restructurings for each major type of cost.

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- Definition

Tabular disclosure of an entity's restructuring reserve that occurred during the period associated with the exit from or disposal of business activities or restructurings for each major type of cost. This element may also include a description of any reversal and other adjustment made during the period to the amount of an accrued liability for restructuring activities. This element may be used to encapsulate the roll forward presentations of an entity's restructuring reserve by type of cost and in total, and explanation of changes that occurred in the period.

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