RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS (Sale of AR) (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Apr. 27, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
Proceed from termination of receivables Agreement	$ 5,000,000
Net value of receivables sold		$ 0	$ 429,600,000	$ 458,000,000	$ 1,323,900,000
Proceeds from sale of receivables		0	$ 429,400,000	457,700,000	$ 1,323,300,000
Sold Receivables that have not been collected at the balance sheet date.		$ 0		$ 0		$ 155,500,000

The amount of proceeds from termination of agreement.

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This includes only the derecognized portion of the total principal amount of financial assets which have been either securitized, used in an asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfers which are accounted for as sales and in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in transferred financial assets).

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Principal amount of transferred financial assets in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the assets underlying the transaction. Continuing involvement includes, but is not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in transferred financial assets.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
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The cash inflow associated with the proceeds from sale and collection of receivables during the period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3179-108585

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