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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 18px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Note 15. Thailand Flooding</b></font></p>
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<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">In October
2011, severe flooding in Thailand inundated all of the
Company’s Thailand manufacturing facilities and submerged
certain equipment located there. These facilities included the
Company’s magnetic head slider fabrication facilities, as
well as its hard drive, head gimbal assembly and head stack
assembly facilities. As a result, the Company recorded $235 million
of flood-related charges in fiscal 2012, offset by $21 million of
insurance recoveries and other cost reimbursements. These charges
are separately stated as a line item, “Charges related to
flooding, net,” within operating expenses on the consolidated
statements of income.</font></p>
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<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">The Company
maintains insurance coverage that provides property and business
interruption coverage in the event of losses arising from flooding.
The Company has submitted claims to its insurers and is awaiting a
determination of how much of its total losses will be covered by
insurance.</font></p>
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6365513&loc=d3e15138-107781
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