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Income Taxes (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Income Taxes

Income Taxes And Related Effective Tax Rates

		Three Months Ended June 30,																Six Months Ended June 30,
In millions		2011								2010								2011								2010
Pre-tax income (loss)		$	(147)							$	1,968							$	(1,910)							$	(291)
Provision (benefit) for income taxes		$	(284)				193.2%			$	673				34.2%			$	(772)				40.4%			$	(106)				36.4%

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Income Taxes [Abstract]

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Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Publisher FASB
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-Article
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Paragraph 12
-Section 50
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6907707&loc=d3e32687-109319

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