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Components of Interest Expense (Table Text Block) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Interest Expense, Borrowings [Abstract] |
Interest Expense | Interest Expense Components of interest expense include the following:
|  | Years Ended March 31,
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  | (In thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 66,159 | $ | 63,523 | $ | 60,701
Capitalized interest |  | (415 | ) | (221 | ) | (425 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  | 4,133 |  | 4,428 |  | 4,249
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  | 20,819 |  | 22,641 |  | 23,856
Total interest expense | $ | 90,696 | $ | 90,371 | $ | 88,381
Interest paid in cash, including payments related to derivative contracts, amounted to $84.6 million, $87.0 million and $84.7 million for fiscal 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

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