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Accumulated Comprehensive Loss (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
ACCUMULATED COMPREHENSIVE LOSS [Abstract] |
Reclassification out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income [Table Text Block] | Reclassifications from accumulated other comprehensive loss for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 are summarized, in millions of dollars, in the following table:
|  | Amount reclassified from accumulated comprehensive income |  |
Components of Other Comprehensive Income |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | Affected line item in the income statement
Amortization of defined benefit pension plans |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Prior service cost |  | $ | 0.5 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 0.3 |  |  | (a)
Actuarial loss |  | 6.8 |  |  | 5.5 |  |  | 7.3 |  |  | (a)
Transition obligation |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (0.4 | ) |  | (a)
|  | 7.3 |  |  | 5.5 |  |  | 7.2 |  |  | Total before tax
|  | (2.8 | ) |  | (2.3 | ) |  | (2.6 | ) |  | Tax provision
Total reclassifications for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 |  | $ | 4.5 |  |  | $ | 3.2 |  |  | $ | 4.6 |  |  | Net of tax
Schedule of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] | Other comprehensive income activity, net of tax, is provided in the following table for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013.
Dollar amounts in millions | Foreign currency translation adjustments |  | Pension adjustments |  | Unrealized gain (loss) on derivative instruments |  | Unrealized gain (loss) on investments |  | Other |  | Total
Balance at January 1, 2013 | $ | (7.6 | ) |  | $ | (99.0 | ) |  | $ | (0.3 | ) |  | $ | 1.0 |  |  | $ | (2.0 | ) |  | $ | (107.9 | )
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications | (11.6 | ) |  | 33.3 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | 1.0 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | 23.3 |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated comprehensive income | — |  |  | (4.6 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (4.6 | )
Net current-period other comprehensive income | (11.6 | ) |  | 28.7 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | 1.0 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | 18.7 |
Balance at December 31, 2013 | (19.2 | ) |  | (70.3 | ) |  | — |  |  | 2.0 |  |  | (1.7 | ) |  | (89.2 | )
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications | (14.5 | ) |  | (25.5 | ) |  | — |  |  | 0.6 |  |  | 0.5 |  |  | (38.9 | )
Amounts reclassified from accumulated comprehensive income | — |  |  | (3.2 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (3.2 | )
Net current-period other comprehensive income | (14.5 | ) |  | (28.7 | ) |  | — |  |  | 0.6 |  |  | 0.5 |  |  | (42.1 | )
Balance at December 31, 2014 | (33.7 | ) |  | (99.0 | ) |  | — |  |  | 2.6 |  |  | (1.2 | ) |  | (131.3 | )
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications | (21.4 | ) |  | 10.2 |  |  | — |  |  | 0.7 |  |  | 0.2 |  |  | (10.3 | )
Amounts reclassified from accumulated comprehensive income | — |  |  | (4.5 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (4.5 | )
Net current-period other comprehensive income | (21.4 | ) |  | 5.7 |  |  | — |  |  | 0.7 |  |  | 0.2 |  |  | (14.8 | )
Balance at December 31, 2015 | $ | (55.1 | ) |  | $ | (93.3 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 3.3 |  |  | $ | (1.0 | ) |  | $ | (146.1 | )

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