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Components of Interest Expense (Table Text Block) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Interest Expense, Borrowings [Abstract] |
Interest Expense | Interest Expense Components of interest expense include the following:
|  | Years Ended March 31,
|  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 72,538 | $ | 66,159 | $ | 63,523
Capitalized interest |  | (571 | ) | (415 | ) | (221 | )
Amortization of transaction costs |  | 3,551 |  | 4,133 |  | 4,428
Interest expense resulting from derivatives |  | 17,174 |  | 20,819 |  | 22,641
Total interest expense | $ | 92,692 | $ | 90,696 | $ | 90,371

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