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Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Notes To Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Long-Term Debt | Long-Term Debt at December 31, 2012 and 2011 consisted of the following (in thousands):
|  | 2012 |  | 2011
6.125% Senior Notes due 2013 | $ | 400,000 | $ | 400,000
Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2014 |  | 350,000 |  | 350,000
2.95% Senior Notes due 2015 |  | 500,000 |  | 500,000
2.500% Senior Notes due 2016 |  | 400,000 |  | 400,000
5.875% Senior Notes due 2017 |  | 600,000 |  | 600,000
6.875% Senior Notes due 2018 |  | 350,000 |  | 350,000
5.625% Senior Notes due 2019 |  | 900,000 |  | 900,000
4.40% Senior Notes due 2020 |  | 500,000 |  | 500,000
4.100% Senior Notes due 2021 |  | 750,000 |  | 750,000
2.625% Senior Notes due 2023 |  | 1,250,000 |  | -
6.65% Senior Notes due 2028 |  | 140,000 |  | 140,000
4.75% Subsidiary Debt due 2014 |  | 150,000 |  | 150,000
Total Long-Term Debt |  | 6,290,000 |  | 5,040,000
Capital Lease Obligation |  | 62,968 |  | -
Less: | Current Portion of Long-Term Debt |  | 406,579 |  | -
| Unamortized Debt Discount |  | 40,787 |  | 30,834
Total Long-Term Debt, Net | $ | 5,905,602 | $ | 5,009,166

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