Postretirement Benefit Plans (Health Care Cost Trend Rates) (Details) - Defined Benefit Postretirement Health And Life Coverage [Member]	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Health care cost trend rate assumed for next year	6.00%	6.00%	5.50%
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate)	5.40%	5.50%	5.50%
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate	2024	2018	2016

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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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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (l)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82843861&loc=d3e1928-114920

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Ultimate trend rate for health care cost for defined benefit postretirement plan.

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Year ultimate health care cost trend rate is expected to be reached, in CCYY format.

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