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Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Income Taxes [Abstract] 
INCOME TAXES
(5) INCOME TAXES
     Our estimated annual effective tax rate, adjusted for unusual tax items, is applied to interim periods’ pretax income (loss). Except for a portion of the current year’s foreign earnings, which have been remitted to the U.S., we consider earnings of our foreign subsidiaries to be permanently reinvested, and as such, we have not provided for any U.S. federal or state income taxes on these permanently reinvested earnings.
     In recent years we repatriated cash from our foreign subsidiaries from current year foreign earnings and recognized U.S. tax expense, net of available credits, on those occasions. The incremental tax rate associated with these repatriations is approximately 30% with no U.S. cash tax requirement due to utilization of U.S. net operating losses.