Defined Benefit Pension And Other Postretirement Plans (Summarizes Assumed Health Care Cost Trend Rates) (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Medical Pre-65
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Health care cost trend rate assumed for the following year:	6.80%	6.75%	7.00%
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate):	4.50%	4.50%	4.50%
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate:	2027	2026	2026
Prescription drugs
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Health care cost trend rate assumed for the following year:	9.50%	8.75%	9.00%
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate):	4.50%	4.50%	4.50%
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate:	2027	2026	2026
Medical Post-65 \| Maximum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Health care cost trend rate assumed for the following year:	4.00%

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Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
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-Section 50
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Ultimate trend rate for health care cost for defined benefit postretirement plan.

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