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Components of Interest Expense (Table Text Block) | 3 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2012
Interest Expense, Borrowings [Abstract] |
Interest expense disclosure | Interest Expense Components of interest expense include the following:
|  | Quarter Ended June 30, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
|  | (Unaudited) |
|  | (In thousands) |
Interest expense |  | $ | 15,646 |  |  | $ | 15,839 |
Capitalized interest |  |  | (77 | ) |  |  | (32 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  |  | 1,085 |  |  |  | 1,036 |
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  |  | 6,837 |  |  |  | 5,790 |
Total interest expense |  | $ | 23,491 |  |  | $ | 22,633 |
Interest paid in cash, including payments related to derivative contracts, amounted to $21.2 million and $21.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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