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Stock Incentive Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] |
Stock option activity [Text Block] |
| Shares (thousands) |  | Weighted average exercise price |  | Weighted average remaining contractual life (in years) |  | Aggregate intrinsic value (in millions)
Outstanding at January 1, 2013 | 2,872 |  |  | $ | 15.33 |  |  | 3.4 |  | $ | 58.8 |
Exercised | (870 | ) |  | $ | 14.17 |  |  |  |  | $ | 25.5 |
Forfeited | (5 | ) |  | $ | 17.48 |  |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2013 | 1,997 |  |  | $ | 15.82 |  |  | 2.6 |  | $ | 80.0 |
Exercised | (283 | ) |  | $ | 14.04 |  |  |  |  | $ | 13.8 |
Outstanding at December 31, 2014 | 1,714 |  |  | $ | 16.11 |  |  | 1.7 |  | $ | 66.5 |
Exercised | (440 | ) |  | $ | 14.76 |  |  |  |  | $ | 19.2 |
Forfeited | (7 | ) |  | $ | 14.52 |  |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2015 | 1,267 |  |  | $ | 16.59 |  |  | 0.9 |  | $ | 33.7 |
Options exercisable at December 31, 2015 | 1,267 |  |  | $ | 16.59 |  |  | 0.9 |  | $ | 33.7 |
Proceeds from stock option exercises [Text Block] |
| Year Ended December 31,
(millions of dollars) | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Proceeds from stock options exercised — gross | $ | 6.5 |  |  | $ | 4.0 |  |  | $ | 12.3 |
Tax benefit | 10.3 |  |  | 12.9 |  |  | 20.7 |
Proceeds from stock options exercised, net of tax | $ | 16.8 |  |  | $ | 16.9 |  |  | $ | 33.0 |
Restricted stock compensation expense [Text Block] |
| Year Ended December 31,
(millions of dollars, except per share data) | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Restricted stock compensation expense | $ | 28.0 |  |  | $ | 20.7 |  |  | $ | 25.8 |
Restricted stock compensation expense, net of tax | $ | 20.4 |  |  | $ | 15.1 |  |  | $ | 18.8 |
Status of nonvested restricted stock [Text Block] |
| Shares subject to restriction (thousands) |  | Weighted average price
Nonvested at January 1, 2013 | 2,064 |  |  | $ | 29.39 |
Granted | 782 |  |  | $ | 37.82 |
Vested | (1,322 | ) |  | $ | 24.36 |
Forfeited | (113 | ) |  | $ | 36.59 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2013 | 1,411 |  |  | $ | 37.86 |
Granted | 447 |  |  | $ | 54.36 |
Vested | (530 | ) |  | $ | 37.42 |
Forfeited | (62 | ) |  | $ | 41.14 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2014 | 1,266 |  |  | $ | 43.57 |
Granted | 687 |  |  | $ | 58.45 |
Vested | (588 | ) |  | $ | 39.14 |
Forfeited | (39 | ) |  | $ | 50.85 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2015 | 1,326 |  |  | $ | 53.18 |
Amounts expensed under plan and share issuances [Text Block] |
| Year Ended December 31,
(millions of dollars, except share data) | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013*
Expense | $ | 12.2 |  |  | $ | 11.4 |  |  | $ | 10.8 |
Number of shares | — |  |  | — |  |  | 545,375 |
________________ *Shares were issued in February of the following year.

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