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Debt Level 3 (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |
Schedule of Debt [Table Text Block] | Debt as of December 31 was as follows:
| 2016 |  | 2015
| (In thousands)
7.0% Senior Notes due June 2017 | $ | — |  |  | $ | 295,000 |
7.625% Senior Notes due October 2018 | 250,000 |  |  | 250,000 |
4.5% Senior Notes due November 2020 | 200,000 |  |  | 200,000 |
8.0% Senior Notes due November 2021 | 150,000 |  |  | 150,000 |
5.375% Senior Notes due January 2022 | 425,000 |  |  | 425,000 |
5.375% Senior Notes due May 2024 | 850,000 |  |  | 850,000 |
7.5% Senior Notes due April 2027 | 200,000 |  |  | 200,000 |
Term Loan due July 2018 | — |  |  | 310,000 |
Bank Credit Facility due July 2018 | — |  |  | 270,000 |
Term Loan due March 2021 | 673,750 |  |  | — |
Bank Credit Facility due March 2021 | 350,000 |  |  | — |
Obligations under capital leases | 208,758 |  |  | 204,246 |
Mortgage notes and other debt, maturities through 2050 | 3,753 |  |  | 4,037 |
Unamortized premiums (discounts) and other, net | 8,313 |  |  | 8,636 |
Unamortized debt issuance costs | (32,984 | ) |  | (42,491 | )
Total debt | 3,286,590 |  |  | 3,124,428 |
Less: Current maturities of long-term debt | (89,974 | ) |  | (86,823 | )
Total long-term debt | $ | 3,196,616 |  |  | $ | 3,037,605 |
Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block] | The following table summarizes the aggregate maturities of our debt for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2016 and thereafter, excluding unamortized premiums (discounts) and debt issuance costs (in thousands):
2017 | $ | 94,725 |
2018 | 350,609 |
2019 | 74,169 |
2020 | 295,231 |
2021 | 647,792 |
2022 and thereafter | 1,848,735 |
| $ | 3,311,261 |
Schedule of Cash Flow, Supplemental Disclosures [Table Text Block] | Cash interest payments for the three years ended December 31 were as follows (in thousands):
Payments in 2016 | $ | 156,950 |
Payments in 2015 | $ | 164,748 |
Payments in 2014 | $ | 175,327 |
| Years Ended December 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
| (In thousands)
Net change in capital expenditure accrual | $ | (1,435 | ) |  | $ | 5,571 |  |  | $ | 1,022 |
Options exercised by attestation | $ | — |  |  | $ | 122 |  |  | $ | 761 |
Shares repurchased | $ | — |  |  | $ | (122 | ) |  | $ | (761 | )
Non-cash acquisition of capital leases | $ | 41,609 |  |  | $ | 55,941 |  |  | $ | 35,422 |
Schedule of future cash interest payments [Table Text Block] | ash interest payments for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2016 and thereafter are as follows (in thousands):
Payments in 2017 | $ | 152,682 |
Payments in 2018 | $ | 147,342 |
Payments in 2019 | $ | 132,269 |
Payments in 2020 | $ | 130,745 |
Payments in 2021 | $ | 99,515 |
Payments in 2022 and thereafter | $ | 197,077 |

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