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Accounting Policies Common Stock Repurchases (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2014
Common Stock Repurchases [Abstract] |
Schedule of Common Stock Repurchases | A summary of cumulative share repurchases of our Class A stock is as follows (in millions):
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Six Months Ended
|  | March 29, 2014 |  | March 30, 2013 |  | March 29, 2014 |  | March 30, 2013
|  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars
Shares repurchased: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Under share repurchase program |  | 2.5 |  |  | $ | 100 |  |  | 2.1 |  |  | $ | 50 |  |  | 7.1 |  |  | $ | 250 |  |  | 7.2 |  |  | $ | 150 |
To fund certain obligations under equity compensation plans |  | 0.4 |  |  | 16 |  |  | 1.1 |  |  | 23 |  |  | 0.7 |  |  | 25 |  |  | 1.9 |  |  | 38 |
Total share repurchases |  | 2.9 |  |  | $ | 116 |  |  | 3.2 |  |  | $ | 73 |  |  | 7.8 |  |  | $ | 275 |  |  | 9.1 |  |  | $ | 188 |

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