Debt Level 3 (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Debt Instrument [Line Items]

Schedule of Debt [Table Text Block]

The components of Debt are:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
	(In thousands)
7.500% Senior Notes due April 2027	$	137,424	$	138,274
4.625% Senior Notes due December 2027	550,000		550,000
5.125% Senior Notes due June 2029	750,000		750,000
3.375% Senior Notes due August 2030	850,000		850,000
4.000% Senior Notes due May 2031	800,000		800,000
Term Loan due May 2024	—		536,250
Term Loan due January 2028	658,125		—
Bank Credit Facility due May 2024	—		570,000
Bank Credit Facility due January 2028	790,000		—
Obligations under finance leases	132,039		120,837
Mortgage notes and other debt, maturities through 2050	80,696		66,248
Unamortized debt issuance costs	(35,788)		(39,865)
Total debt	$	4,712,496	$	4,341,744
Less: Current maturities of long-term debt	(63,341)		(90,661)
Total long-term debt	$	4,649,155	$	4,251,083

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

The following table summarizes the aggregate maturities of our debt for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2023 and thereafter, excluding unamortized premiums and debt issuance costs (in thousands):

2024	$	63,341
2025	75,158
2026	52,500
2027	748,287
2028	1,349,969
2029 and thereafter	2,423,241
Total debt maturities	$	4,712,496

Schedule of Cash Flow, Supplemental Disclosures [Table Text Block]

Cash interest payments for the three years ended December 31 were as follows (in thousands):

Payments in 2023	$	230,551
Payments in 2022	$	164,222
Payments in 2021	$	142,145

Schedule of future cash interest payments [Table Text Block]

ash interest payments on our existing long-term debt for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2023 and thereafter are as follows (in thousands):

Payments in 2024	$	250,870
Payments in 2025	249,148
Payments in 2026	247,603
Payments in 2027	237,673
Payments in 2028	104,679
Payments in 2029 and thereafter	145,087
Total expected cash interest payments	$	1,235,060