Stock-based Compensation Plans (Assumptions used in Monte Carlo Model) (Details) - Long-Term Performance Plan [Member]	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected stock price volatility	18.48%	16.87%	18.74%
Peer group stock price volatility	20.67%	18.41%	20.01%
Correlations of returns	54.49%	52.49%	56.55%
Risk free interest rate	2.49%	2.21%	1.53%

The measure of the percentage by which the peer group stock price fluctuates during a period.

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Rate of correlation of returns.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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