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Debt and Capital Lease Obligations (Schedule Of Debt) (Details) - USD ($) | Sep. 02, 2017 | Sep. 03, 2016
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Debt Instrument [Line Items] |  |  |
Capital lease and financing obligations |  | $ 27,829,000 | $ 28,268,000
Less: unamortized debt issuance costs |  | (1,852,000) | (946,000)
Total Debt |  | 532,977,000 | 606,822,000
Less: short-term debt | [1] | (331,986,000) | (267,050,000)
Long-term debt |  | 200,991,000 | 339,772,000
New Credit Facility [Member] |  |  |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |  |  |
Credit Facility |  | 332,000,000 | 217,000,000
Term Loan [Member] |  |  |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |  |  |
Credit Facility |  |  | 187,500,000
Senior Notes Series A [Member] | Private Placement Debt [Member] |  |  |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |  |  |
Private placement debt |  | 75,000,000 | 75,000,000
Senior Notes Series B [Member] | Private Placement Debt [Member] |  |  |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |  |  |
Private placement debt |  | $ 100,000,000 | $ 100,000,000
[1] | Net of unamortized debt issuance costs expected to be amortized in the next twelve months.

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- Definition Amount equal to the present value (the principal) at the beginning of the lease term of minimum lease payments during the lease term (excluding that portion of the payments representing executory costs such as insurance, maintenance, and taxes to be paid by the lessor, together with any profit thereon) net of payments or other amounts applied to the principal through the balance sheet date. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 30 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (b) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84164817&loc=d3e45280-112737 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 210 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(22)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 944 -SubTopic 210 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03(a)(16)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879938&loc=d3e572229-122910 + Details
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