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Income Taxes (Earnings Before Income Taxes And Equity Earnings) (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 29, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Jan. 01, 2011
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Earnings before income taxes and equity earnings	$ 460.2	$ 412.9	$ 277.4
U.S. [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Earnings before income taxes and equity earnings	365.2	335.5	204.5
Foreign [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Earnings before income taxes and equity earnings	$ 95.0	$ 77.4	$ 72.9

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Sum of operating profit and nonoperating income or expense before Income or Loss from equity method investments, income taxes, extraordinary items, and noncontrolling interest.

+ References

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 235

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(h)(1)(i))

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6881521&loc=d3e23780-122690



Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 08

-Paragraph h

-Subparagraph 1(i)

-Article 4

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