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Represents the base percentage of annual sales volume used for calculating incremental rent on certain retail store leases.

No definition available.

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Represents expense to be accrued related to cash bonus provided to the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, which will include any payroll taxes.

No definition available.

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Represents the fixed cash rights payment to be received by the entity from one of its licensees.

No definition available.

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Represents a special cash bonus, in addition to annual incentive opportunities, given to the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman by the entity subject to the receipt of a fixed cash rights payment from one of its licensees.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of service providers from whom the entity has experienced temporary disruption in services during the period.

No definition available.

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- Details

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The aggregate amount provided for estimated restructuring charges, remediation costs, and asset impairment loss during an accounting period. Generally, these items are either unusual or infrequent, but not both (in which case they would be extraordinary items).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 225

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.3)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6880815&loc=d3e20235-122688