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Other Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 2012
Notes To Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Schedule of Comprehensive Income (Loss) | Components of other comprehensive income were as follows (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| Sep 29, 2012 |  |  | Oct 1, 2011 |  |  | Sep 29, 2012 |  |  | Oct 1, 2011 |
Net earnings | $ | 29,769 |  |  | $ | 23,461 |  |  | $ | 82,909 |  |  | $ | 60,914 |
Currency translation adjustment | 6,042 |  |  | (11,053 | ) |  | 4,500 |  |  | (9,209 | )
Pension liability adjustment, net of tax | 130 |  |  | — |  |  | 271 |  |  |  |
Unrealized gain on interest rate swaps, net of tax | 15 |  |  | (527 | ) |  | (38 | ) |  | (725 | )
Comprehensive income | $ | 35,956 |  |  | $ | 11,881 |  |  | $ | 87,642 |  |  | $ | 50,980 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 45 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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