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Earnings Per Share - Additional Information (Detail) (Stock-Settled SARs [Member])
3 Months Ended
Apr. 04, 2015
Mar. 29, 2014
Stock-Settled SARs [Member]
   
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Outstanding options or stock settled SARs 741,495us-gaap_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount
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756,170us-gaap_AntidilutiveSecuritiesExcludedFromComputationOfEarningsPerShareAmount
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