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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
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13. | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2013 are as follows:
|  | Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by Component for the Year Ended December 31, 2013 |
|  | Gains and Losses on Cash Flow Hedges |  |  | Defined Benefit Pension Plan |  |  | Total Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) |
|  | (In thousands) |
Balance at December 31, 2012 |  | $ | (19,488 | ) |  | $ | (475 | ) |  | $ | (19,963 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications(1) |  |  | 3,329 |  |  |  | 752 |  |  |  | 4,081 |
Amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)(2) |  |  | 7,300 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 7,300 |
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | 10,629 |  |  |  | 752 |  |  |  | 11,381 |
Balance at December 31, 2013 |  | $ | (8,859 | ) |  | $ | 277 |  |  | $ | (8,582 | )
(1) | Net of tax expense of $2,040 related to gains and losses on cash flow hedges, and $460 related to the defined benefit pension plan.
(2) | Net of tax expense of $4,474.
See the heading “Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities” in Note 6, “Long-Term Debt,” for further discussion of Sonic’s cash flow hedges. For further discussion of Sonic’s defined benefit pension plan, see Note 10, “Employee Benefit Plans.”

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