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Debt Obligations (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Changes in Debt Obligations |
|  | December 31, 2012 |  | Additions |  | Payments, Conversions, Accretion and Other |  | September 30, 2013
|  | (in millions)
2.50% convertible senior notes repaid August 15, 2013(1) |  | $ | 91 |  | $ | - |  | $ | (91) |  | $ | -
4.00% senior unsecured notes due January 15, 2015 (net of discount)(2) |  |  | 399 |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 399
5.55% senior unsecured notes due January 15, 2020 (net of discount)(2) |  |  | 598 |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 598
5.25% senior unsecured notes due January 16, 2018 (net of discount)(2) |  |  | 368 |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 368
3.875% senior unsecured notes due June 7, 2021 (net of discount)(2) |  |  | - |  |  | 782 |  |  | 29 |  |  | 811
$1.2 billion senior unsecured five-year credit facility(3): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
$450 million senior unsecured term loan facility credit agreement due September 19, 2016 (average interest rate of 1.57% for the period January 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013) |  |  | 394 |  |  | - |  |  | (34) |  |  | 360
$750 million revolving credit commitment due September 19, 2016 (average interest rate of 1.37% for the period January 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013) |  |  | 126 |  |  | 120 |  |  | (64) |  |  | 182
Total debt obligations |  |  | 1,976 |  |  | 902 |  |  | (160) |  |  | 2,718
Less current portion |  |  | (136) |  |  | - |  |  | 91 |  |  | (45)
Total long-term debt obligations |  | $ | 1,840 |  | $ | 902 |  | $ | (69) |  | $ | 2,673
(1) See “2.50% Convertible Senior Notes” below for further discussion. (2) See “Senior Unsecured Notes” below for further discussion. (3) See “2011 Credit Facility” below for further discussion.
Interest Expense Recognized on Convertible Senior Notes in Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income |
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012
|  |  | (in millions)
Components of interest expense recognized on the 2013 Convertible Notes |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Accretion of debt discount |  | $ | - |  | $ | 1 |  | $ | 2 |  | $ | 2
Contractual interest |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 1 |  |  | 2
Total interest expense recognized on the 2013 Convertible Notes |  | $ | - |  | $ | 1 |  | $ | 3 |  | $ | 4

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