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Income Taxes (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Oct. 02, 2020
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 |  |
| October 2, 2020 |  | September 27, 2019 |  | October 2, 2020 |  | September 27, 2019
Effective tax rate | 13.5 | % |  | 19.8 | % |  | 18.5 | % |  | 29.6 | %

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