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Employee Separation / Asset Related Charges, Net (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Employee Separation / Asset Related Charges, Net [Abstract] |
Schedule of Restructuring Program [Table Text Block] |
| Employee Separation Costs | Other Non-Personnel Charges 1 | Total
Balance at December 31, 2012 | $ | 154 |  | $ | 7 |  | $ | 161 |
Payments | (66 | ) | (3 | ) | (69 | )
Net translation adjustment | (1 | ) | — |  | (1 | )
Balance as of September 30, 2013 | $ | 87 |  | $ | 4 |  | $ | 91 |
1 | Other non-personnel charges consist of contractual obligation costs.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of costs incurred for restructuring including, but not limited to, exit and disposal activities, remediation, implementation, integration, asset impairment, and charges against earnings from the write-down of assets. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 420 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 5.P.3) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27011515&loc=d3e140864-122747 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 420 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 5.P.4) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27011515&loc=d3e140904-122747 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 420 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6394359&loc=d3e17939-110869 + Details
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