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BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND ORGANIZATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Restatement Tables [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Error Corrections And Prior Period Adjustment Restatement Income Statement [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended December 31, 2011
|  | As |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Previously |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Reported |  | Adjustment |  | As Revised
|  | (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Income taxes (benefit) |  | $ | (16,444) |  | $ | 2,233 |  | $ | (14,211)
Net income (loss) |  | $ | 68,510 |  | $ | (2,233) |  | $ | 66,277
Net income per share: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic |  | $ | 1.88 |  | $ | (0.06) |  | $ | 1.82
Diluted |  | $ | 1.81 |  | $ | (0.05) |  | $ | 1.76
Schedule Of Error Corrections And Prior Period Adjustment Restatement Balance Sheet [Table Text Block] |
|  | December 31, 2011
|  | As |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Previously |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Reported |  | Adjustment |  | As Revised
|  | (amounts in thousands)
Deferred tax liabilities |  | $ | 11,317 |  | $ | 2,233 |  | $ | 13,550
Total long-term liabilities |  | $ | 636,752 |  | $ | 2,233 |  | $ | 638,985
Total liabilities |  | $ | 668,125 |  | $ | 2,233 |  | $ | 670,358
Accumulated deficit |  | $ | (346,565) |  | $ | (2,233) |  | $ | (348,798)
Total shareholders' equity |  | $ | 251,144 |  | $ | (2,233) |  | $ | 248,911
Schedule Of Error Corrections And Prior Period Adjustment Restatement Cash Flow Statement [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended December 31, 2011
|  | As |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Previously |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Reported |  | Adjustment |  | As Revised
|  | (amounts in thousands)
Net income (loss) |  | $ | 68,510 |  | $ | (2,233) |  | $ | 66,277
Net deferred taxes (benefit) and other |  | $ | (14,801) |  | $ | 2,233 |  | $ | (12,568)

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