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Components of Interest Expense (Table Text Block) | 9 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Interest Expense, Borrowings [Abstract] |
Interest expense disclosure | Components of interest expense include the following:
|  | Quarter Ended December 31,
|  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  | (Unaudited)
|  | (In thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 16,540 | $ | 16,009
Capitalized interest |  | (119 | ) | (76 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  | 1,014 |  | 1,198
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  | 4,641 |  | 5,613
Total interest expense | $ | 22,076 | $ | 22,744
|  | Nine Months Ended December 31,
|  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  | (Unaudited)
|  | (In thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 48,715 | $ | 47,888
Capitalized interest |  | (290 | ) | (154 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  | 3,149 |  | 3,292
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  | 16,106 |  | 17,314
Total interest expense | $ | 67,680 | $ | 68,340
Interest paid in cash including payments related to derivative contracts, amounted to $20.8 million and $21.7 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 and 2012, respectively and $63.3 million and $66.0 million for the first nine months of fiscal 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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