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WORKERS' PARTICIPATION: (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
WORKERS' PARTICIPATION: |
Workers' participation expense | Workers’ participation expense for the three years ended December 31, 2012 was as follows (in millions):
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
Current |  | $ | 263.1 |  | $ | 274.7 |  | $ | 233.6 |
Deferred |  | 14.3 |  | (18.0 | ) | 10.7 |
|  | $ | 277.4 |  | $ | 256.7 |  | $ | 244.3

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of worker's participation expense which is allocated to cost of sales (exclusive of depreciation, amortization and depletion) and to selling, general and administrative in the consolidated statement of earnings, proportional to the number of workers in the production and administrative areas, respectively. + References No definition available. + Details
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