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LONG-TERM DEBT LIABILITIES (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Net Interest Expense |
|  | Net Interest Expense
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | March 31,
|  | 2015 |  | 2014
|  | (amounts in thousands)
Interest expense |  | $ | 8,490 |  | $ | 8,743
Amortization of deferred financing costs |  |  | 707 |  |  | 1,087
Amortization of original issue discount of senior notes |  |  | 82 |  |  | 73
Total net interest expense |  | $ | 9,279 |  | $ | 9,903

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