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Employee Benefit Plans (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 29, 2012
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Expense [Abstract] |
Net Periodic Benefit Costs |
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | December 29, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Service cost |  | $ | 73 |  |  | $ | 82 |
Interest cost |  | 137 |  |  | 196 |
Amortization of transition obligation |  | 90 |  |  | 99 |
Total periodic post-retirement benefit cost |  | $ | 300 |  |  | $ | 377 |
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | December 29, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Service cost |  | $ | 1,248 |  |  | $ | 1,016 |
Interest cost |  | 1,455 |  |  | 1,467 |
Expected return on plan assets |  | (959 | ) |  | (953 | )
Amortization of prior service credit |  | (14 | ) |  | (16 | )
Amortization of actuarial loss |  | 407 |  |  | 218 |
Pension expense for defined benefit plans |  | 2,137 |  |  | 1,732 |
Pension expense for defined contribution plans |  | 1,350 |  |  | 1,198 |
Total pension expense for non-U.S. plans |  | $ | 3,487 |  |  | $ | 2,930 |
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | December 29, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Service cost |  | $ | 6,714 |  |  | $ | 5,837 |
Interest cost |  | 7,205 |  |  | 7,446 |
Expected return on plan assets |  | (10,335 | ) |  | (10,492 | )
Amortization of prior service cost |  | 2 |  |  | 2 |
Amortization of actuarial loss |  | 6,901 |  |  | 4,256 |
Pension expense for defined benefit plans |  | 10,487 |  |  | 7,049 |
Pension expense for defined contribution plans |  | 2,393 |  |  | 2,047 |
Total pension expense for U.S. plans |  | $ | 12,880 |  |  | $ | 9,096 |
Actual And Anticipated Additional Contributions To Defined Benefit Pension Plan |
|  | U.S. Plans |  | Non-U.S. Plans |  | Total
Actual |  | $ | 7,969 |  |  | $ | 1,555 |  |  | $ | 9,524 |
Anticipated |  | 23,862 |  |  | 5,697 |  |  | 29,559 |
|  | $ | 31,831 |  |  | $ | 7,252 |  |  | $ | 39,083 |
Schedule of Amounts Recognized in Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] |
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | December 29, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011
Balance at beginning of period |  | $ | (280,424 | ) |  | $ | (234,128 | )
Net reclassification from AOCI into earnings: |  |  |  |
Reclassification from AOCI into earnings |  | 7,272 |  |  | 4,388 |
Tax effect |  | (2,753 | ) |  | (1,698 | )
|  | 4,519 |  |  | 2,690 |
Balance at end of period |  | $ | (275,905 | ) |  | $ | (231,438 | )

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