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Employee Incentive Plans (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
Employee Incentive Plans [Abstract] |
Share Grants And Fair Value |
|  |  |  | Fair Value at
|  |  |  | Date of Grant
|  | Shares |  | ($ millions)
In connection with IPO |  | 927,943 |  | $ | 27.8
July 31, 2007 |  | 16,665 |  |  | 0.4
December 31, 2007 |  | 1,055,206 |  |  | 32.9
December 31, 2008 |  | 2,065,432 |  |  | 35.6
December 31, 2009 |  | 2,448,031 |  |  | 42.8
December 31, 2010 |  | 2,513,738 |  |  | 43.2
December 31, 2011 |  | 3,411,613 |  |  | 50.8
January 6, 2012 |  | 1,215,866 |  |  | 18.4
December 31, 2012 |  | 3,629,960 |  |  | 50.5
December 31, 2013 |  | 1,894,046 |  |  | 46.2
|  | 19,178,500 |  | $ | 348.6
2007 Stock Incentive Plan, ROI Summary |
|  | Shares
|  | 2007 Stock
|  | Incentive Plan
Balance, December 31, 2013 |  | 11,647,117
Granted |  | -
Forfeited |  | (143,185)
Distributed (1) |  | (2,434,794)
Balance, June 30, 2014 |  | 9,069,138
Shares cumulatively distributed under the 2007 Stock Incentive Plan include 16,238 shares from Treasury representing shares acquired at the IPO to satisfy obligations under the 2007 ROI Unit Stock Plan.

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