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Income Taxes (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 27, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Summary Of Effective Income Tax Rate | The following table summarizes the Company’s effective tax rate:
| Three-Month Period Ended |  | Nine-Month Period Ended
| September 27, 2019 |  | September 28, 2018 |  | September 27, 2019 |  | September 28, 2018
Effective tax rate | 20.1 | % |  | 17.2 | % |  | 29.3 | % |  | 19.0 | %

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