STOCK PLANS AND SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Fair Value Assumptions) (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012 years	Sep. 30, 2011 years	Sep. 30, 2012 years	Sep. 30, 2011 years
Employee Stock Options [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rates	0.87%	1.46%
Expected volatility rates	45.00%	44.00%	45.00%	44.00%
Expected dividend yield	0.57%	0.59%
Expected term of stock options/purchase right (in years)	6.40	6.00	6.40	6.00
Weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted	$ 16.00	$ 15.58	$ 18.20	$ 15.66
Employees Stock Purchase Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rates	0.14%	0.16%
Expected volatility rates	34.00%	37.00%		37.00%
Expected dividend yield	0.57%	0.59%
Expected term of stock options/purchase right (in years)	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Weighted-average estimated fair value of purchase rights	$ 8.55	$ 8.93	$ 9.40	$ 9.15

The period of time an equity-based award is expected to be outstanding. An equity-based award's expected term is generally determined based on, among other factors, the instrument's contractual term and the effects of employees' expected exercise and post-vesting employment termination behavior.

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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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