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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule Of Components of Income Tax Expense

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2012				2011				2010
Current
United States	$	2,871			$	18,052			$	12,246
State and local	(2,064		)		2,290				3,357
Foreign	53,582				59,051				56,925
	54,389				79,393				72,528
Deferred
United States	4,796				(43		)		4,134
State and local	444				(226		)		247
Foreign	1,530				(775		)		9,374
	6,770				(1,044		)		13,755
Total	$	61,159			$	78,349			$	86,283

Schedule Of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2012				2011			2010
Statutory tax rate	35.0	%			35.0	%		35.0	%
State income taxes, net of federal benefit	(0.7	)			0.6			0.9
Change in classification of permanently reinvested earnings	—				—			1.4
Change in valuation allowance on deferred tax assets	0.7				(0.2	)		—
Nondeductible European Commission fine	8.6				—			—
Dividends received from deconsolidated operations	(1.8	)			—			—
Other, including changes in liabilities recorded for uncertain tax positions	(4.0	)			(3.2	)		(3.7	)
Effective income tax rate	37.8	%	—		32.2	%		33.6	%

Schedule Of U.S. And Foreign Components Of Income Before Income Taxes And Other Items

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2012				2011				2010
United States	$	21,773			$	32,826			$	48,675
Foreign	140,205				210,073				207,953
Total	$	161,978			$	242,899			$	256,628

Schedule Of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities

	March 31,
	2012				2011
Liabilities
Foreign withholding taxes	$	14,192			$	16,692
Undistributed earnings	46,010				34,015
Goodwill	30,851				31,515
All other	20,998				22,386
Total deferred tax liabilities	$	112,051			$	104,608
Assets
Employee benefit plans	$	69,373			$	50,761
Reserves and accruals	45,793				51,841
Deferred income	8,098				9,035
Deferred compensation	3,035				5,055
All other	17,144				9,927
Total deferred tax assets	143,443				126,619
Valuation allowance	(4,620		)		(3,427		)
Net deferred tax assets	$	138,823			$	123,192

Schedule Of Combined Income Tax Expense (Benefit) Allocable To Continuing Operations, Other Comprehensive Income, And Adjustments To Shareholders' Equity

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2012				2011				2010
Continuing operations	$	61,159			$	78,349			$	86,283
Other comprehensive income	(18,296		)		3,210				6,520
Direct adjustments to shareholders' equity	(285		)		159				(454		)
Total	$	42,578			$	81,718			$	92,349

Reconciliation Of The Gross Liability For Uncertain Tax Positions

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2012				2011				2010
Liability for uncertain tax positions, beginning of year	$	9,223			$	22,184			$	22,740
Additions:
Related to tax positions for the current year	262				1,184				9,609
Related to tax positions for prior years	1,072				77				574
Reductions:
Related to tax positions for prior years	—				(205		)		(1,674		)
Due to settlements with tax jurisdictions	(698		)		(12,765		)		(1,552		)
Due to lapses of statutes of limitations	(1,213		)		(1,571		)		(4,802		)
Other reductions	—				—				(4,041		)
Effect of currency rate movement	(733		)		319				1,330
Liability for uncertain tax positions, end of year	$	7,913			$	9,223			$	22,184

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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Tabular disclosure of the components of net deferred tax asset or liability recognized in an entity's statement of financial position, including the following: the total of all deferred tax liabilities, the total of all deferred tax assets, the total valuation allowance recognized for deferred tax assets.

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Tabular disclosure of tax positions taken in the tax returns filed or to be filed for which it is more likely than not that the tax position will not be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities (i.e., uncertain tax positions) and other types of income tax contingencies, including: (1) the policy on classification of interest and penalties; (2) a tabular reconciliation of the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits at the beginning and end of the period; the total amount(s) of: (3) unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate, and (4) interest and penalties recognized in each of the income statement and balance sheet; (5) for positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts unrecognized will significantly change within 12 months of the reporting date the: (i) nature of the uncertainty, (ii) nature of the event that could occur that would cause the change, and (iii) an estimate of the range of the reasonably possible change or a statement that an estimate of the range cannot be made; and (6) a description of tax years that remain subject to examination by major tax jurisdictions.

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