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Executive Benefit Agreements and Employee Savings Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Executive Benefit Agreements and Employee Savings Plans [Abstract] |
Executive Benefit Agreements |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
|  | (Dollars In Thousands) |
Total undiscounted death benefits - 1981 Agreements |  | $ | 4,115 |  |  | $ | 4,115 |
Total undiscounted death benefits — 1992 Agreements |  | $ | 302 |  |  | $ | 302 |
Total undiscounted death benefit — 2005 Agreement |  | $ | 2,500 |  |  | $ | 2,500 |
Accrued death benefits — All agreements |  | $ | 4,017 |  |  | $ | 4,058 |
Total undiscounted executive benefits — 1992 Agreements |  | $ | 1,950 |  |  | $ | 1,963 |
Discount rates utilized — 1992 Agreements |  |  | 3.58 | % |  |  | 4.17 | %
Accrued executive benefits — 1992 Agreements |  | $ | 1,262 |  |  | $ | 1,187 |
Executive Benefit expenses |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
|  | (In Thousands) |
Costs associated with executive benefits included in SG&A |  | $ | 158 |  |  | $ | 169 |  |  | $ | 75 |
Life Insurance Policies |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
|  | (In Thousands) |
Total face value of life insurance policies (1) |  | $ | 21,522 |  |  | $ | 21,522 |
Cash surrender values of life insurance policies |  | $ | 4,961 |  |  | $ | 4,461 |
Loans on cash surrender values |  |  | (1,890 | ) |  |  | (1,844 | )
Net cash surrender values |  | $ | 3,071 |  |  | $ | 2,617 |
Life Insurance Premiums |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
|  | (In Thousands) |
Cost of life insurance premiums |  | $ | 851 |  |  | $ | 851 |  |  | $ | 842 |
Increases in cash surrender values |  | $ | (499 | ) |  | $ | (496 | ) |  | $ | (494 | )
Net cost of life insurance premiums included in SG&A |  | $ | 352 |  |  | $ | 355 |  |  | $ | 348 |
(1) |  | Includes $7,000,000 on the life of our CEO, of which $2,500,000 is required to be paid under the 2005 Agreement as discussed above.

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