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Variable Interest Entities (Details) | Mar. 31, 2016
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Propel |
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items] |
Percent of membership interests divested | 100.00%

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- Definition Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Details
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