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Selected Current Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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May 31, 2014
Selected Current Liabilities (Tables) [Abstract] |
Selected Current Liabilities |
|  |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Accrued Salaries and Employee Benefits |  |  |  |  |
| Salaries | $ | 267 |  | $ | 489
| Employee benefits, including |  |  |  |  |
|  | variable compensation |  | 434 |  |  | 615
| Compensated absences |  | 576 |  |  | 584
|  |  | $ | 1,277 |  | $ | 1,688
Accrued Expenses |  |  |  |  |
| Self-insurance accruals | $ | 811 |  | $ | 796
| Taxes other than income taxes |  | 339 |  |  | 368
| Other |  | 913 |  |  | 768
|  |  | $ | 2,063 |  | $ | 1,932

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