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Dividends (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Equity [Abstract] |
Dividends Paid on outstanding weighted average number of basic common shares | Cash dividends on our outstanding weighted average number of basic common shares for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 were approximately as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended March 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014
Cash dividends per common share | $ | 0.18 |  |  | $ | 0.17 |

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