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Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract] |
Changes in the components of Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) | Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets includes prior service costs and net actuarial gains and losses for defined benefit plans; foreign currency cumulative translation adjustments; unrealized derivative gains and losses; and investment gains and losses, all net of tax. Changes in the components of Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and April 2, 2011 were as follows:
| Three Months Ended
(in millions) | March 31, 2012 |  | April 2, 2011
Net earnings | $ | 39.7 |  |  | $ | 27.5 |
Other comprehensive income (loss): |  |  |  |  |
Foreign currency cumulative translation adjustment | 6.2 |  |  | 16.1 |
Net change in unamortized prior service cost | (1.7 | ) |  | (1.2 | )
Net change in unamortized actuarial loss | 5.8 |  |  | 5.4 |
Net change in unrealized derivative losses | (2.0 | ) |  | (2.6 | )
Total other comprehensive income | 8.3 |  |  | 17.7 |
Comprehensive income | $ | 48.0 |  |  | $ | 45.2 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 45 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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