Stock-Based Compensation (Stock Option Grants) (Details) - $ / shares	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Time-Vested Stock Options [Member] \| 1/12/2018 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Grant Year	2018
Grant Date	Jan. 12, 2018
Expected Life	6 years
Expected Volatility	44.25%
Expected Dividend Yield	0.00%
Risk Free Interest Rate	2.42%
Weighted-average grant-date fair value	$ 7.57
Performance Stock Options [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Life	10 years
Performance Stock Options [Member] \| 1/12/2018 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Grant Year	2018
Grant Date	Jan. 12, 2018
Expected Volatility	49.33%
Expected Dividend Yield	0.00%
Risk Free Interest Rate	2.55%
Performance Stock Options [Member] \| 7/31/2017 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Grant Year		2017
Grant Date		Jul. 31, 2017
Expected Volatility		49.22%
Expected Dividend Yield		2.19%
Risk Free Interest Rate		2.30%
Minimum [Member] \| Performance Stock Options [Member] \| 1/12/2018 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Life	1 year
Weighted-average grant-date fair value	$ 8.51
Minimum [Member] \| Performance Stock Options [Member] \| 7/31/2017 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Life		11 months 23 days
Weighted-average grant-date fair value		$ 6.88
Maximum [Member] \| Performance Stock Options [Member] \| 1/12/2018 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Life	2 years 5 months 5 days
Weighted-average grant-date fair value	$ 9.12
Maximum [Member] \| Performance Stock Options [Member] \| 7/31/2017 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Life		2 years 4 months 21 days
Weighted-average grant-date fair value		$ 7.25

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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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.

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The weighted average grant-date fair value of options granted during the reporting period as calculated by applying the disclosed option pricing methodology.

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Expected term of share-based compensation awards, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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