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Disclosures About Defined Pension Benefit Obligations (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 30, 2011

Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Defined Benefit Postretirement Plans Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Pension Plans' Net Benefit Obligation

The following table presents the components of net periodic benefit cost recognized in earnings during each of the three month periods ended December 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 (in thousands):

	For the Three Months Ended
Component:	December 30, 2011				December 31, 2010
Service cost	$	8,846			$	7,249
Interest cost	18,674				14,686
Expected return on plan assets	(18,600		)		(14,255		)
Amortization of previously unrecognized items	4,867				4,051
Net periodic benefit cost	$	13,787			$	11,731

Defined Contribution Plans

The following table presents certain information regarding Company cash contributions to our pension plans for fiscal 2012 (in thousands):

Cash contributions made during the first three months of fiscal 2012	$	40,170
Cash contributions we expect to make during the remainder of fiscal 2012	44,744
Total	$	84,914

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Tabular disclosure of cash contributions to company pension plans

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Tabular disclosure of the components of net benefit costs for pension plans and/or other employee benefit plans including service cost, interest cost, expected return on plan assets, gain (loss), prior service cost or credit, transition asset or obligation, and gain (loss) recognized due to settlements or curtailments.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Topic 715

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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-Section 50

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