Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Employee Benefits (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

General Discussion of Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits [Abstract]

Components of Net Periodic Cost (Benefit)

The following tables detail the components of net periodic cost (benefit) of our pension plans and other postretirement employee benefits, or OPEB, for the quarters and nine months ended September 30:

Quarters ended September 30:



	Pension Plans						Other Postretirement Employee Benefits
(Dollars in thousands)	2012			2011			2012			2011
Service cost	$	1,309		$	1,114		$	71		$	112
Interest cost	4,997			5,331			620			871
Expected return on plan assets	(7,188		)	(7,951		)	—			—
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)	192			171			(2,336		)	(2,134		)
Amortization of actuarial loss	3,839			2,479			781			992
Net periodic cost (benefit)	$	3,149		$	1,144		$	(864	)	$	(159	)

Nine months ended September 30:



	Pension Plans						Other Postretirement Employee Benefits
(Dollars in thousands)	2012			2011			2012			2011
Service cost	$	3,928		$	3,342		$	213		$	335
Interest cost	14,990			15,994			1,859			2,614
Expected return on plan assets	(21,566		)	(23,853		)	—			—
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)	577			513			(7,111		)	(6,402		)
Amortization of actuarial loss	11,517			7,437			2,345			2,975
Net periodic cost (benefit)	$	9,446		$	3,433		$	(2,694	)	$	(478	)

Schedule of Comprehensive Income

The following table details the components of "Other comprehensive income, net of tax" on our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income of our pension plans and OPEB for the quarters and nine months ended September 30:



	Quarter Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30,						September 30,
(Dollars in thousands)	2012			2011			2012			2011
Other comprehensive income, net of tax, related to:
Defined benefit pension plans	$	2,459		$	1,616		$	7,377		$	4,849
OPEB obligations	(948		)	(697		)	(2,906		)	(2,090		)
Other comprehensive income, net of tax	$	1,511		$	919		$	4,471		$	2,759

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Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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Tabular disclosure of one or more of the entity's defined benefit pension plans or one or more other defined benefit postretirement plans, separately for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans including the entity's schedule of fair value of plan assets for defined benefit or other postretirement plans.

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