Long-Term Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Indebtedness Table

As of December 31, 2013 and 2012, long-term debt consisted of the following (in thousands):

	2013		2012
Partnership's bank credit facility (due 2016), interest based on Prime and/or LIBOR plus an applicable margin, interest rate at December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012 was 3.2% and 4.3%, respectively	$	155,000	$	71,000
Subsidiary Borrower's credit facility (due 2016), interest based on LIBOR plus 5.0%, interest rate at December 31, 2013 was 5.3%	65,041		—
Senior unsecured notes (due 2018), net of discount of $7.8 million and $9.7 million, respectively, which bear interest at the rate of 8.875%	717,202		715,305
Senior unsecured notes (due 2022), which bear interest at the rate of 7.125%	250,000		250,000
Other debt	13,229		—
Debt classified as long-term	$	1,200,472	$	1,036,305

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

Maturities for the long-term debt as of December 31, 2013 are as follows (in thousands):

2014	$	—
2015	—
2016	232,734
2017	536
2018	725,000
Thereafter	250,000
Subtotal	1,208,270
Less discount	(7,798		)
Total outstanding debt	$	1,200,472

Schedule Of Debt Leverage

The commitment fee, letter of credit fee and the applicable margins for the interest rate vary quarterly based on the Partnership's leverage ratio (as defined in the existing credit facility, being generally computed as the ratio of total funded debt to consolidated earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and certain other non-cash charges) and are as follows:

Leverage Ratio	Base Rate Loans	Eurodollar Rate Loans and Letter of Credit Fees	Letter of Commitment Fees
Greater than or equal to 4.50 to 1.00	2.00%	3.00%	0.50%
Greater than or equal to 4.00 to 1.00 and less than 4.50 to 1.00	1.75%	2.75%	0.50%
Greater than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 and less than 4.00 to 1.00	1.50%	2.50%	0.50%
Greater than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 and less than 3.50 to 1.00	1.25%	2.25%	0.50%
Less than 3.00 to 1.00	1.00%	2.00%	0.38%