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Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |
Summary of long-term debt | The Company carries its long-term debt at face value, net of applicable discounts. Long-term debt consisted of the following:
|  | September 30, 2014 |  | December 31, 2013
|  | (dollars in thousands)
5.00% Senior Notes |  | $ | 539,822 |  |  | $ | — |
2.25% Convertible Senior Notes |  | — |  |  | 160,334 |
3.00% Convertible Senior Notes |  | — |  |  | 84,305 |
Acquisition Line |  | — |  |  | 60,000 |
Real Estate Credit Facility |  | 58,838 |  |  | 67,719 |
Other Real Estate Related and Long-Term Debt |  | 316,703 |  |  | 279,167 |
Capital lease obligations related to real estate, maturing in varying amounts through June 2034 with a weighted average interest rate of 10.3% |  | 57,655 |  |  | 47,553 |
|  | 973,018 |  |  | 699,078 |
Less current maturities of real estate credit facility and other long-term debt |  | 34,519 |  |  | 35,389 |
|  | $ | 938,499 |  |  | $ | 663,689 |
3.00% Convertible Notes [Member] |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |
Contractual interest expense and the discount amortization | For the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, the contractual interest expense and the discount amortization, which are recorded as interest expense in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations, were as follows:
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
|  | 2014 |  | 2013
|  | (dollars in thousands)
Year-to-date contractual interest expense |  | $ | 1,839 |  |  | $ | 2,588 |
Year-to-date discount amortization (1) |  | $ | 1,810 |  |  | $ | 2,410 |
Effective interest rate of liability component |  | 8.6 | % |  | 8.6 | %
(1) Represents the incremental impact of the accounting for convertible debt as primarily codified in ASC 470, Debt.

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