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Financial Instruments | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Financial Instruments [Abstract] |
Financial Instruments | 14. Financial Instruments Long-term debt, principally to banks and bondholders, consists of:
(in thousands, except interest rates) |  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Private placement with a fixed interest rate of 6.84%, due 2015 and 2017 |  |  | $100,000 |  |  |  |  | $100,000 |  |
Credit agreement with borrowings outstanding at an end of period interest rate of 2.69% in 2014 and 2.53% in 2013 (including the effect of interest rate hedging transactions, as described below), due in 2018 |  |  | 172,000 |  |  |  |  | 200,000 |  |
Various notes and mortgages, at an average end of period rate of 5.50% in 2014 and 3.10% in 2013, due in varying amounts through 2021 |  |  | 111 |  |  |  |  | 3,875 |  |
Long-term debt |  |  | 272,111 |  |  |  |  | 303,875 |  |
Less: current portion |  |  | (50,015) |  |  |  |  | (3,764) |  |
Long-term debt, net of current portion |  |  | $222,096 |  |  |  |  | $300,111 |  |
Principal payments due on long-term debt are: 2015, $50.0 million; 2017, $50.0 million and 2018, $172.0 million. Total principal payments in 2016, 2019 and thereafter total $0.1 million. Cash payments of interest amounted to $13.0 million in 2014, $16.1 million in 2013 and $18.4 million in 2012. A note agreement and guaranty (“Prudential Agreement”) was entered into in October 2005, and was amended and restated as September 17, 2010 and March 26, 2013, with the Prudential Insurance Company of America, and certain other purchasers, with interest at 6.84% and a maturity date of October 25, 2017. The remaining obligation under the Prudential Agreement has a mandatory payment of $50 million due on October 25, 2015, and the final payment is due October 25,2017. At the noteholders' election, certain prepayments may also be required in connection with certain asset dispositions or financings. The notes may not otherwise be prepaid without a premium, under certain market conditions. The Prudential Agreement contains customary terms, as well as affirmative covenants, negative covenants, and events of default comparable to those in our current principal credit facility (as described below). For disclosure purposes, we are required to measure the fair value of outstanding debt on a recurring basis. As of December 31, 2014, the fair value of this debt was approximately $110.6 million, which was measured using active market interest rates, which would be considered Level 2 for fair value measurement purposes. On March 26, 2013, we entered into a $330 million, unsecured Five-Year Revolving Credit Facility Agreement (“Credit Agreement”), under which $172 million of borrowings were outstanding as of December 31, 2014. The Credit Agreement replaces the previous $390 million five-year Credit Agreement made in 2010. The applicable interest rate for borrowings under the Credit Agreement, as well as under the former agreement, is LIBOR plus a spread, based on our leverage ratio at the time of borrowing. At the time of the last borrowing on December 22, 2014, the spread was 1.375%. The spread is based on a pricing grid, which ranges from 1.25% to 1.875%, based on our leverage ratio. Our ability to borrow additional amounts under the Credit Agreement is conditional upon the absence of any defaults, as well as the absence of any material adverse change. Based on our maximum leverage ratio and our consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the Credit Agreement), and without modification to any other credit agreements, as of December 31, 2014, we would have been able to borrow an additional $158 million under our agreement. On July 16, 2010, we entered into interest rate hedging transactions that have the effect of fixing the LIBOR portion of the effective interest rate (before addition of the spread) on $105 million of the indebtedness drawn under the Credit Agreement at the rate of 2.04% until July 16, 2015. Under the terms of these transactions, we pay the fixed rate of 2.04% and the counterparties pay a floating rate based on the three-month LIBOR rate at each quarterly calculation date, which on October 16, 2014 was 0.23%. The net effect is to fix the effective interest rate on $105 million of indebtedness at 2.04%, plus the applicable spread, until these swap agreements expire. On December 31, 2014, the all-in rate on the $105 million of debt was 3.415%. On May 20, 2013, we entered into interest rate hedging transactions for the period July 16, 2015 through March 16, 2018. These transactions have the effect of fixing the LIBOR portion of the effective interest rate (before addition of the spread) on $110 million of indebtedness drawn under the Credit Agreement at the rate of 1.414% during this period. Under the terms of these transactions, we pay the fixed rate of 1.414% and the counterparties pay a floating rate based on the one-month LIBOR rate at each monthly calculation date, which on December 31, 2014 was 0.17%. The net effect is to fix the effective interest rate on $110 million of indebtedness at 1.414%, plus the applicable spread, during the swap period. These interest rate swaps are accounted for as a hedge of future cash flows, as further described in Note 15 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. No cash collateral was received or pledged in relation to the swap agreements. Under the Credit Agreement and Prudential Agreement, we are currently required to maintain a leverage ratio (as defined in the agreements) of not greater than 3.50 to 1.00 and minimum interest coverage (as defined) of 3.00 to 1.00. As of December 31, 2014, our leverage ratio was 1.30 to 1.00 and our interest coverage ratio was 13.01 to 1.00. We may purchase our Common Stock or pay dividends to the extent our leverage ratio remains at or below 3.50 to 1.00, and may make acquisitions with cash provided our leverage ratio would not exceed 3.50 to 1.00 after giving pro forma effect to the acquisition. Indebtedness under each of the Prudential Agreement and the Credit Agreement is ranked equally in right of payment to all unsecured senior debt. We were in compliance with all debt covenants as of December 31, 2014.

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