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Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Aug. 27, 2011
Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract] 
Annual minimum lease commitments
Annual minimum lease commitments for the five years subsequent to August 27, 2011 and thereafter are as follows (in thousands):

2012
 $5,432 
2013
  4,341 
2014
  2,869 
2015
  2,505 
2016
  1,860 
Thereafter
  2,323 
   $19,330 
Changes to environmental liabilities
The changes to the Company's environmental liabilities for the years ended August 27, 2011 and August 28, 2010 are as follows (in thousands):

Year ended
 
August 27,
2011
  
August 28,
2010
 
Beginning balance
 $18,986  $19,384 
Costs incurred for which reserves have been provided
  (2,485 )  (2,392 )
Insurance proceeds received
  203   216 
Interest accretion
  681   794 
Changes in discount rates
  284   865 
Revisions in estimates
  699   119 
          
Ending balance
 $18,368  $18,986
Anticipated payments and insurance proceeds of identified environmental remediation liabilities

Anticipated payments and insurance proceeds of currently identified environmental remediation liabilities as of August 27, 2011, for the next five fiscal years and thereafter, as measured in current dollars, are reflected below.

(In thousands)
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Thereafter
Total
Estimated costs – current dollars
   
$
4,333
 
$
2,366
 
$
1,766
 
$
919
 
$
766
 
$
12,387
 
$
22,537
   
                                                 
Estimated insurance proceeds
     
(159
)
 
(173
)
 
(159
)
 
(173
)
 
(159
)
 
(1,893
)
 
(2,716
)
 
                                                 
Net anticipated costs
   
$
4,174
 
$
2,193
 
$
1,607
 
$
746
 
$
607
 
$
10,494
 
$
19,821
   
                                                 
Effect of inflation
                                         
6,985
   
Effect of discounting
                                         
(8,438
)
 
                                                 
Balance as of August 27, 2011
                                       
$
18,368