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Comprehensive Income and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011
Comprehensive Income and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss [Abstract] |
Components of comprehensive income | The following table sets forth the components of comprehensive income:
|  | Three Months Ended June 30, |  | Six Months Ended June 30, |
|  | 2011 |  | 2010 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
Net income |  | $ | 14,434 |  | $ | 40,049 |  | $ | 26,877 |  | $ | 52,131 |
Other comprehensive income/(loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Unrealized gain/(loss) on tax increment financing bond |  |  | (336 | ) |  | (73 | ) |  | (471 | ) |  | 146 |
Amortization of settled cash-flow hedges |  |  | (29 | ) |  | 48 |  |  | (58 | ) |  | 287 |
Sale of cash-flow hedge related to disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliate |  |  | — |  |  | 103 |  |  | — |  |  | 103 |
Total other comprehensive income/(loss) |  |  | (365 | ) |  | 78 |  |  | (529 | ) |  | 536 |
Total comprehensive income |  | $ | 14,069 |  | $ | 40,127 |  | $ | 26,348 |  | $ | 52,667 |
Components of accumulated comprehensive loss | The following table sets forth the components of AOCL:
|  | June 30, 2011 |  | December 31, 2010 |
Tax increment financing bond |  | $ | 3,013 |  | $ | 2,543 |
Settled cash-flow hedges |  |  | 1,164 |  |  | 1,105 |
Total accumulated other comprehensive loss |  | $ | 4,177 |  | $ | 3,648 |

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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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