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Other Noncurrent Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2012
Other Noncurrent Assets [Abstract] |
Other Noncurrent Assets | G. OTHER NONCURRENT ASSETS
|  | August 31,
$ in thousands |  | 2012 |  | 2011
Other noncurrent assets: |  |  |  |  |  |
Cash surrender value of life insurance policies |  | $ | 2,494 |  | $ | 2,414
Split dollar life insurance |  |  | 929 |  |  | 929
Deferred income taxes |  |  | 650 |  |  | 269
Other |  |  | 1,382 |  |  | 1,792
Total noncurrent assets |  | $ | 5,455 |  | $ | 5,404

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