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Marketable Securities (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Available-for-sale Securities [Abstract] |
Cash equivalents and marketable securities classified as available-for-sale |
|  | As of September 30, 2012
(Dollars in thousands) |  | Fair Value |  | Amortized Cost |  | Gross Unrealized Gains |  | Gross Unrealized Losses |  | Weighted Rate of Return
Money market funds |  | $ | 118,508 |  |  | $ | 118,508 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | 0.01 | %
Corporate notes, bonds and commercial paper |  | 56,886 |  |  | 56,906 |  |  | — |  |  | (20 | ) |  | 0.21 | %
Total cash equivalents and marketable securities |  | 175,394 |  |  | 175,414 |  |  | — |  |  | (20 | ) |  |  |
Cash |  | 31,692 |  |  | 31,692 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  |  |
Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities |  | $ | 207,086 |  |  | $ | 207,106 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (20 | ) |  |  |
|  | As of December 31, 2011
(Dollars in thousands) |  | Fair Value |  | Amortized Cost |  | Gross Unrealized Gains |  | Gross Unrealized Losses |  | Weighted Rate of Return
Money market funds |  | $ | 127,559 |  |  | $ | 127,559 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | 0.01 | %
Corporate notes, bonds and commercial paper |  | 137,108 |  |  | 137,208 |  |  | — |  |  | (100 | ) |  | 0.29 | %
Total cash equivalents and marketable securities |  | 264,667 |  |  | 264,767 |  |  | — |  |  | (100 | ) |  |  |
Cash |  | 24,789 |  |  | 24,789 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  |  |
Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities |  | $ | 289,456 |  |  | $ | 289,556 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (100 | ) |  |  |
Available-for-sale securities reported at fair value |
| September 30, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
| (Dollars in thousands)
Cash equivalents | $ | 120,514 |  |  | $ | 137,455 |
Short term marketable securities | 54,880 |  |  | 127,212 |
Total cash equivalents and marketable securities | 175,394 |  |  | 264,667 |
Cash | 31,692 |  |  | 24,789 |
Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities | $ | 207,086 |  |  | $ | 289,456 |
Estimated fair value of cash equivalents and marketable securities classified by the length of time that the securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position |
| Fair Value |  | Gross Unrealized Loss
| September 30, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011 |  | September 30, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
| (In thousands)
Less than one year |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Corporate notes, bonds and commercial paper | $ | 46,384 |  |  | $ | 137,107 |  |  | $ | (20 | ) |  | $ | (100 | )

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