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LONG-TERM DEBT LIABILITIES (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Net Interest Expense |
|  | Net Interest Expense
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | March 31,
|  | 2013 |  | 2012
|  | (amounts in thousands)
Interest expense |  | $ | 10,366 |  | $ | 12,052
Amortization of deferred financing costs |  |  | 1,043 |  |  | 1,118
Amortization of original issue discount of senior notes |  |  | 66 |  |  | 59
Interest expense on interest rate hedging agreements |  |  | 0 |  |  | 847
Interest income and other investment income |  |  | (1) |  |  | (3)
Total net interest expense |  | $ | 11,474 |  | $ | 14,073

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