Debt Instrument, Redemption Rule, Redemption Price, Percentage, Basis Spread

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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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Percentage price of original principal amount of debt at which debt can be redeemed by the issuer.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 470
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph e
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6479336&loc=d3e64711-112823

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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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Financial Instruments - Long-Term Debt - Footnotes (Details) - Unsecured Debt [Member]			12 Months Ended
	Nov. 21, 2016	Jun. 03, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Redemption price, percentage	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%
Minimum [Member] \| US Treasury Rate [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt redemption price, basis spread percentage	0.10%	0.05%	0.05%
Maximum [Member] \| US Treasury Rate [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt redemption price, basis spread percentage	0.20%	0.15%	0.50%
Notes Payable And Other Debt, Weighted Average Interest Rate 3.30%, Due 2018-2021 [Member] \| Weighted Average [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, term			2 years
Notes Payable And Other Debt, Weighted Average Interest Rate 5.99%, Due 2023-2043 [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, term			16 years