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Other Expenses (Income), Net (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Other Expenses (Income), Net |
Schedule Of Other (Income) Expenses, Net |
|  | Third quarter ended September 30, |  |  | Nine months ended September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Equity loss (income) |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | (24 | ) |  | $ | (10 | )
Interest income |  |  | (5 | ) |  |  | (5 | ) |  |  | (16 | ) |  |  | (14 | )
Foreign currency losses, net |  |  | 35 |  |  |  | 21 |  |  |  | 5 |  |  |  | 23 |
Net (gain) loss from asset sales |  |  | — |  |  |  | (8 | ) |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | (8 | )
Net (gain) loss on mark-to-market derivative contracts (P) |  |  | (14 | ) |  |  | 42 |  |  |  | (41 | ) |  |  | 56 |
Other, net |  |  | 13 |  |  |  | (5 | ) |  |  | 28 |  |  |  | 1 |
|  | $ | 31 |  |  | $ | 43 |  |  | $ | (47 | ) |  | $ | 48 |

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