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Incentive Compensation Plans Stock-based Compensation Awards (Details) - 6 months ended Jun. 30, 2015 - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions | Total
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Share-based Compensation Award [Abstract] |
Incentive Compensation Plan Initiation Year | 2014
Incentive Compensation Plans |
Granted awards | 3.5
Stock settled awards |
Incentive Compensation Plans |
Granted awards | 0.7
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value | $ 22.12
Performance based awards |
Incentive Compensation Plans |
Granted awards | 2.8
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value | $ 20.88
Cash awards |
Incentive Compensation Plans |
Performance Cash awards granted during the period target value | $ 32.8
Restricted Cash awards granted during the period target value | $ 0.7
Cash awards vesting period | 3 years

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- Definition Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (a)(1) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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