Share-Based Compensation Plans (Performance-Based Valuation Assumptions) (Details) - Performance-based restricted stock units	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Schedule of Share-based Payment Awards, Performance-Based, Valuation Assumptions [Line Items]
Expected dividend yield	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Risk-free interest rate	1.47%	0.99%	0.93%
Expected volatility	27.83%	25.12%	24.01%
Average total shareholder return	1.46%	(1.23%)	8.37%

[Line Items] for Schedule of Share-based Payment Awards, Performance-Based, Valuation Assumptions [Table]

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement, Fair Value, Average Shareholder Return

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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-Publisher FASB
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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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