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Certificates of Deposit (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Certificates of Deposit [Abstract] |
Certificates of deposit | The following table represents the breakdown of Certificates of Deposit at March 31, 2012 and 2011, and at December 31, 2011:
|  | March 31, 2012 |  |  | December 31, 2011 |  |  | March 31, 2011 |
Certificates of deposit < $100,000 |  | $ | 248,582,000 |  |  | $ | 216,836,000 |  |  | $ | 308,127,000 |
Certificates $100,000 to $250,000 |  |  | 349,643,000 |  |  |  | 309,841,000 |  |  |  | 337,018,000 |
Certificates $250,000 and over |  |  | 32,548,000 |  |  |  | 22,499,000 |  |  |  | 35,440,000 |
|  | $ | 630,773,000 |  |  | $ | 549,176,000 |  |  | $ | 680,585,000 |

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