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Earnings Per Common Share (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011
Earnings Per Common Share |
Schedule Of Basic Weighted Average Shares Reconciles To Diluted Weighted Average Shares |
|  | Three Months Ended June 30, |  |  | Six Months Ended June 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Basic weighted average common shares outstanding |  |  | 82,151 |  |  |  | 80,369 |  |  |  | 81,790 |  |  |  | 80,225 |
Dilutive effect of stock options, unvested shares, and DCUs |  |  | 1,627 |  |  |  | 1,431 |  |  |  | 1,717 |  |  |  | 1,430 |
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding |  |  | 83,778 |  |  |  | 81,800 |  |  |  | 83,507 |  |  |  | 81,655 |

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