Stock-Based Compensation Narrative (Details) shares in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016 shares
Statement [Line Items]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Options Expiration Term	10 years
Directors' Plan [Member]
Statement [Line Items]
Shares reserved for future grants under the stock option and compensation plan	396
Employee Stock Option [Member]
Statement [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period 1	3 years
Shares reserved for future grants under the stock option and compensation plan	11,500

Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Options Expiration Term

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The number of shares reserved for issuance pertaining to the outstanding stock options as of the balance sheet date for all option plans in the customized range of exercise prices.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(1)(i)-(ii)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901

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