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Note 2 Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 01, 2011
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Cash and Cash Equivalents [Table Text Block] | Cash and cash equivalents consisted of the following:
| As of
| October 1, 2011 |  | October 2, 2010
| (In thousands)
Cash and bank balances | $ | 639,853 |  |  | $ | 592,021 |
Money market funds | 435 |  |  | 791 |
Total | $ | 640,288 |  |  | $ | 592,812 |

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