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Income Taxes
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES

6. INCOME TAXES

The Company recognized an income tax provision of $1.0 million and $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, the Company recognized an income tax provision of $1.9 million and $2.8 million, respectively. The income tax provision for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011 primarily relates to tax expense at non-U.S. operations that are not in a cumulative loss position. Due to the Company’s recent cumulative domestic losses for book purposes and the uncertainty of the realization of certain deferred tax assets, the Company continues to adjust its valuation allowance as the deferred tax assets increase or decrease, resulting in effectively no recorded tax benefit for domestic operating losses. The Company’s effective tax rate was 19% and 6% for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, the Company’s effective tax rate was 10% and 30%, respectively.

The Company’s unrecognized tax benefits were $4.1 million at September 30, 2012 and $4.3 million at December 31, 2011, of which $4.0 million and $ 4.2 million at September 30, 2012 and December 21, 2011, respectively, are tax benefits that, if recognized, would reduce the annual effective tax rate. The Company’s continuing practice is to recognize interest and penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense. The Company expects the unrecognized tax benefits to decrease by $1.4 million over the next twelve months.