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Common Stock Repurchase Program (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Common Stock Repurchase Program [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Stock Repurchased Under Stock Repurchased Program |
|  | Shares Repurchased |  |  | Cost (in thousands) (1) |  |  | Average Price Paid per Share (2) |
Repurchase activity for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 |  |  | 732,665 |  |  | $ | 45,966 |  |  | $ | 62.72 |
Repurchase activity for the fiscal quarter ended April 1, 2011 |  |  | 546,940 |  |  |  | 29,158 |  |  |  | 53.30 |
Repurchase activity for the fiscal quarter ended July 1, 2011 |  |  | 1,465,264 |  |  |  | 67,376 |  |  |  | 45.97 |
Repurchase activity for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011 |  |  | 1,390,151 |  |  |  | 49,910 |  |  |  | 35.89 |
Total |  |  | 4,135,020 |  |  | $ | 192,410 |  |  |  |  |
(1) | Cost of share repurchases includes the price paid per share and applicable commissions.
(2) | Excludes commission costs.

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