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Net Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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May 31, 2012
Net Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Anti-Dilutive Securities Excluded From Computation Of Earnings Per Share |
|  | Three months ended |  | Nine months ended |
|  | May 31, |  | May 31, |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
Restricted stock units |  | - |  | - |  | 4,322 |  | 2,750 |
Stock options |  | 34,971 |  | - |  | 27,805 |  | - |

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