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Other Comprehensive Earnings | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Other Comprehensive Earnings [Abstract] |
Other Comprehensive Earnings | 12. Other Comprehensive Earnings The amounts recognized in other comprehensive earnings were as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 |  |  | Three Months Ended March 31, 2011 |
|  | Pre-tax |  |  | Tax |  |  | Net of tax |  |  | Pre-tax |  |  | Tax |  |  | Net of tax |
Foreign currency translation adjustments |  | $ | 42,806 |  |  | $ | 704 |  |  | $ | 43,510 |  |  | $ | 72,184 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 72,184 |
Changes in fair value of cash flow hedges and other |  |  | (1,992 | ) |  |  | (276 | ) |  |  | (2,268 | ) |  |  | (651 | ) |  |  | 128 |  |  |  | (523 | )
|  | $ | 40,814 |  |  | $ | 428 |  |  | $ | 41,242 |  |  | $ | 71,533 |  |  | $ | 128 |  |  | $ | 71,661 |

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