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Accounting Policies Common Stock Repurchases (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 28, 2013
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
|  | December 28, 2013 |  | December 29, 2012
|  | Shares |  | Dollars |  | Shares |  | Dollars
Shares repurchased: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Under share repurchase program |  | 4.6 |  |  | $ | 150 |  |  | 5.1 |  |  | $ | 100 |
To fund certain obligations under equity compensation plans |  | 0.3 |  |  | 9 |  |  | 0.8 |  |  | 15 |
Total share repurchases |  | 4.9 |  |  | $ | 159 |  |  | 5.9 |  |  | $ | 115 |

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