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Share-Based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Summary of Share-Based Compensation Expense

		Three Months Ended March 31,
		2013			2012
		(in millions)
Share-based compensation expense before income taxes		$	9		$	10
Income tax benefit			(4)			(4)
Share-based compensation expense after income taxes		$	5		$	6

Summary of Stock Option Activity

		Number of Stock Options(1)			Weighted-Average Exercise Price			Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term			Aggregate Intrinsic Value
								(in years)			(in millions)
Outstanding at January 1, 2013			7,545,777		$	21.10			5.0		$	45
Exercised			377,425			14.68
Forfeited or expired			42,604			23.77
Outstanding at March 31, 2013			7,125,748		$	21.41			4.8		$	83
Exercisable at March 31, 2013			4,902,865		$	20.93			3.7		$	62

⁽¹⁾ No stock option awards were granted during the three months ended March 31, 2013.

Summary of Restricted Stock And PSU Activity

		Restricted Stock						PSUs
		Number of Awards			Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value			Number of Awards			Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested balances at January 1, 2013			3,204,188		$	23.20			1,879,799		$	23.14
Granted			114,290			29.44			28,028			23.44
Vested			(90,882)			24.34			(88,998)			19.75
Forfeited			(75,267)			24.02			(36,562)			23.08
Unvested balances at March 31, 2013			3,152,329		$	23.38			1,782,267		$	23.32

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Disclosure of the number and weighted-average grant date fair value for restricted stock and restricted stock units that were outstanding at the beginning and end of the year, and the number of restricted stock and restricted stock units that were granted, vested, or forfeited during the year.

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Tabular disclosure of the number and weighted-average exercise prices (or conversion ratios) for share options (or share units) that were outstanding at the beginning and end of the year, vested and expected to vest, exercisable or convertible at the end of the year, and the number of share options or share units that were granted, exercised or converted, forfeited, and expired during the year.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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