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Comprehensive Income and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 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 September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  | 2010 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
Net income |  | $ | 8,244 |  | $ | 8,773 |  | $ | 35,121 |  | $ | 60,904 |
Other comprehensive income: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Unrealized gain on tax increment financing bond |  |  | 600 |  |  | 325 |  |  | 129 |  |  | 471 |
Amortization of settled cash-flow hedges |  |  | (30 | ) |  | (25 | ) |  | (87 | ) |  | 262 |
Sale of cash-flow hedge related to disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliate |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 103 |
Total other comprehensive income |  |  | 570 |  |  | 300 |  |  | 42 |  |  | 836 |
Total comprehensive income |  | $ | 8,814 |  | $ | 9,073 |  | $ | 35,163 |  | $ | 61,740 |
Components of accumulated comprehensive loss | The following table sets forth the components of accumulated other comprehensive loss ("AOCL"):
|  | September 30, 2011 |  | December 31, 2010 |
Tax increment financing bond |  | $ | 2,413 |  | $ | 2,543 |
Settled cash-flow hedges |  |  | 1,193 |  |  | 1,105 |
Total accumulated other comprehensive loss |  | $ | 3,606 |  | $ | 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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