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	Jan. 27, 2022	Jan. 31, 2022	Jan. 31, 2021	Jan. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020	May 01, 2021	May 03, 2019
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Common Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share					$ 0.01	$ 0.01		$ 0.01
2019 Omnibus Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
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Number of shares authorized									7,300,000
Employee Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Vested in Period, Fair Value					$ 6,000,000	$ 5,000,000	$ 5,000,000
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Percentage of after tax net profit to be retained by the executive officer to achieve ownership position					75.00%
Weighted-average grant-date fair value of options granted (in USD per share)					$ 16.25	$ 12.27	$ 11.45
Total intrinsic value of options exercised					$ 20,000,000	$ 2,000,000	$ 26,000,000
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Vested and Expected to Vest, Outstanding, Aggregate Intrinsic Value					54,255,547
Cost related to non-vested stock options outstanding not yet recognized					$ 7,000,000
Recognition period					1 year 8 months 23 days
Proceeds from Stock Options Exercised					$ 32,000,000
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Tax Benefit Realized from Exercise of Stock Options (Deprecated 2017-01-31)					$ 5,000,000
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Out of the money stock options of total stock options outstanding					482,216
Employee Stock Option [Member] \| Out of the money options
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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Vested and Expected to Vest, Outstanding, Aggregate Intrinsic Value					$ 0
Long Term Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value					$ 124.76
Number of unvested restricted units expected to vest					521,838	521,836
Long Term Incentive Plan [Member] \| 2019 Omnibus Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Grants, Fair Value					$ 35,000,000	$ 32,000,000	40,000,000
Number of shares available for grant		170,966
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Percent of performance measure based on cumulative adjusted metric					20.00%
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Grants, Fair Value					$ 8,000,000	$ 4,000,000	2,000,000
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value					$ 108.49
Average award vesting period					38 months
Number of unvested restricted units expected to vest					132,407	88,648
Period expected for vesting unvested restricted units					26 months
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Vested in Period, Fair Value					$ 3,000,000	$ 3,000,000	4,000,000
Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Grants, Fair Value					$ 39,000,000	$ 40,000,000	44,000,000
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value					$ 109.45
Number of unvested restricted units expected to vest					607,723	685,355
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Vested in Period, Fair Value					$ 34,000,000	$ 32,000,000	$ 27,000,000
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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value	$ 109.59
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Common Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share				$ 126.31
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Issued in Period				423,184
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Common Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share			$ 95.12
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Issued in Period			235,983
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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Issued in Period		224,334
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Common Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share		$ 110.35
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Issued in Period		224,334
Performance measure based on relative total shareholder return [Member] \| Long Term Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value		$ 138.99
Performance measure based on cumulative adjusted earnings per share metric [Member] \| Long Term Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value		$ 109.59