Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Compliance, Consolidated Indebtedness To Total Capitalization Ratio

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Compliance, Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Calculation, Minimum

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Compliance, Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Calculation, Net Income Percentage

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Line Of Credit Facility, Covenant Compliance, Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Calculation, Proceeds From Issuance Of Common Stock Percentage

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Line of Credit Facility, Accordian Feature, Increase Limit

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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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Period of time between issuance and maturity of debt instrument, in PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.19(b),22(b))
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Amount of borrowing capacity currently available under the credit facility (current borrowing capacity less the amount of borrowings outstanding).

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The cash outflow for debt initially having maturity due after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 15
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Debt Obligations and Credit Facilities - EGL Revolving Credit Facility (Details)		2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Aug. 16, 2018 USD ($)	Feb. 21, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of loans			$ (742,574,000)	$ (914,319,000)	$ (912,140,000)
Loan facilities
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayment of loans			$ (742,600,000)
Loan facilities \| EGL Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Facility term	5 years		5 years
Maximum borrowing capacity	$ 600,000,000.0		$ 600,000,000.0
Increase in borrowing capacity, limit	$ 400,000,000.0
Available unutilized capacity			$ 600,000,000.0
Covenant compliance, consolidated indebtedness to total capitalization (not greater than)	0.35
Covenant compliance, net income (loss) threshold	$ 2,300,000,000
Covenant compliance, net income threshold percent	50.00%
Covenant compliance, percentage of proceeds of common stock issuance	50.00%
Subsequent Event \| Loan facilities \| EGL Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Available unutilized capacity		$ 595,000,000.0
Repayment of loans		$ (5,000,000.0)