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Shareholders' Equity Components of Other Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Changes in Components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income [Abstract] |
Share-Repurchase Programs [Table Text Block] | The following table shows the company's Board of Directors (the "Board") approved share-repurchase programs as of September 30, 2017:
Month of Board Approval |  | Dollar Value Approved for Repurchase |  | Dollar Value of Shares Repurchased |  | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet be Purchased Under the Program
September 2015 |  | $ | 400,000 |  |  | $ | 400,000 |  |  | $ | — |
December 2016 |  | 400,000 |  |  | 16,081 |  |  | 383,919 |
Total |  | $ | 800,000 |  |  | $ | 416,081 |  |  | $ | 383,919 |
Components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income [Table Text Block] | The following table presents the changes in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), excluding noncontrolling interests:
|  | Quarter Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
|  | September 30, 2017 |  | October 1, 2016 |  | September 30, 2017 |  | October 1, 2016
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment and Other: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications (a) |  | $ | 57,988 |  |  | $ | 15,822 |  |  | $ | 227,928 |  |  | $ | 35,610 |
Amounts reclassified into income |  | (4,241 | ) |  | 46 |  |  | (6,888 | ) |  | 1,137 |
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities, Net: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications |  | 1,357 |  |  | 1,273 |  |  | 4,639 |  |  | (2,408 | )
Amounts reclassified into income |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Interest Rate Swaps Designated as Cash Flow Hedges, Net: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other comprehensive loss before reclassifications |  | (2,223 | ) |  | — |  |  | (2,870 | ) |  | — |
Amounts reclassified into income |  | 130 |  |  | 94 |  |  | 327 |  |  | 278 |
Employee Benefit Plan Items, Net: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications |  | (51 | ) |  | 25 |  |  | (94 | ) |  | 97 |
Amounts reclassified into income (loss) |  | 543 |  |  | 789 |  |  | 1,497 |  |  | 5,481 |
Net change in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) |  | $ | 53,503 |  |  | $ | 18,049 |  |  | $ | 224,539 |  |  | $ | 40,195 |
(a) | Includes intra-entity foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term investment nature of $(11,193) and $(50,512) for the third quarter and first nine months of 2017 and $(9,273) and $(38,092) for the third quarter and first nine months of 2016, respectively.

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