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Components of Interest Expense (Table Text Block) | 6 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Interest Expense, Borrowings [Abstract] |
Interest expense disclosure | Components of interest expense include the following:
|  | Quarter Ended September 30, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
|  | (Unaudited) |
|  | (In thousands) |
Interest expense |  | $ | 16,529 |  |  | $ | 16,040 |
Capitalized interest |  |  | (94 | ) |  |  | (46 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  |  | 1,050 |  |  |  | 1,058 |
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  |  | 4,628 |  |  |  | 5,911 |
Total interest expense |  | $ | 22,113 |  |  | $ | 22,963 |
|  | Six Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
|  | (Unaudited) |
|  | (In thousands) |
Interest expense |  | $ | 32,175 |  |  | $ | 31,879 |
Capitalized interest |  |  | (171 | ) |  |  | (78 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  |  | 2,135 |  |  |  | 2,094 |
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  |  | 11,465 |  |  |  | 11,701 |
Total interest expense |  | $ | 45,604 |  |  | $ | 45,596 |
Interest paid in cash including payments related to derivative contracts, amounted to $21.3 million and $22.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 and 2012, respectively and $42.5 million and $44.3 million for the first six months of fiscal 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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