Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details 2)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011 Y	Dec. 31, 2010 Y	Dec. 31, 2009 Y
Common Stock Held in Treasury, at Cost
Number of shares of common stock held in treasury	12,679,948	10,524,757
Stock options
Fair Value of Option Grants, Assumptions and Methodology
Dividend yield (as a percent)	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Risk free interest rate (as a percent)	2.00%	1.50%	2.30%
Expected volatility (as a percent)	40.00%	44.00%	49.00%
Expected life (in years)	4.76	4.00	4.00

The period of time an equity-based award is expected to be outstanding. An equity-based award's expected term is generally determined based on, among other factors, the instrument's contractual term and the effects of employees' expected exercise and post-vesting employment termination behavior.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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