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Segment Information Schedule of Revenue from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets, by Geographical Areas (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Schedule of Net Benefit Costs [Abstract] |
Schedule of Revenue from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets, by Geographical Areas [Table Text Block] | Revenue and long-lived assets, excluding intangible assets, are presented by major geographic area in the following table.
|  | Revenue |  | Long-Lived Assets
|  | Years ended December 31, |  | December 31,
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Domestic |  | $ | 4,475.5 |  |  | $ | 4,184.0 |  |  | $ | 3,972.6 |  |  | $ | 600.1 |  |  | $ | 572.9 |
International: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
United Kingdom |  | 687.7 |  |  | 688.3 |  |  | 568.3 |  |  | 56.3 |  |  | 56.7 |
Continental Europe |  | 697.2 |  |  | 804.7 |  |  | 800.6 |  |  | 58.6 |  |  | 66.4 |
Asia Pacific |  | 916.9 |  |  | 922.5 |  |  | 868.9 |  |  | 108.8 |  |  | 102.2 |
Latin America |  | 383.5 |  |  | 470.4 |  |  | 464.5 |  |  | 45.0 |  |  | 69.2 |
Other |  | 453.0 |  |  | 467.2 |  |  | 447.4 |  |  | 38.0 |  |  | 32.4 |
Total International |  | 3,138.3 |  |  | 3,353.1 |  |  | 3,149.7 |  |  | 306.7 |  |  | 326.9 |
Total Consolidated |  | $ | 7,613.8 |  |  | $ | 7,537.1 |  |  | $ | 7,122.3 |  |  | $ | 906.8 |  |  | $ | 899.8 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 225 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26872669&loc=d3e20235-122688 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e9038-108599 + Details
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