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Accounting Policies Common Stock Repurchases (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 28, 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 |  | Nine Months Ended
|  | June 28, 2014 |  | June 29, 2013 |  | June 28, 2014 |  | June 29, 2013
|  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars
Shares repurchased: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Under share repurchase program |  | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | 4.0 |  |  | $ | 100 |  |  | 7.1 |  |  | $ | 250 |  |  | 11.2 |  |  | $ | 250 |
To fund certain obligations under equity compensation plans |  | 0.3 |  |  | 11 |  |  | 0.4 |  |  | 10 |  |  | 1.0 |  |  | 36 |  |  | 2.3 |  |  | 48 |
Total share repurchases |  | 0.3 |  |  | $ | 11 |  |  | 4.4 |  |  | $ | 110 |  |  | 8.1 |  |  | $ | 286 |  |  | 13.5 |  |  | $ | 298 |

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