RETIREMENT AND PROFIT SHARING PLANS (Notes)	9 Months Ended
RETIREMENT AND PROFIT SHARING PLANS (Notes)	May. 31, 2015
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block]	RETIREMENT AND PROFIT SHARING PLANS U.S. Defined Benefit Pension Plan Settlement Charge On January 12, 2015, the Company announced a plan to offer a voluntary one-time lump sum payment option to certain eligible former employees who had vested benefits under the Company’s U.S. pension plan, that if accepted, would settle the Company’s pension obligations to them. The lump sum cash payment offer closed during the third quarter of fiscal 2015.In total, more than 4,800 former participants accepted the offer, resulting in lump sum payments from plan assets of $279,571 in May 2015. As a result of this settlement and the adoption of the new U.S. mortality tables released by the Society of Actuaries, the Company remeasured the assets and liabilities of the U.S. pension plan, which in aggregate resulted in a net reduction to the projected benefit obligation of $179,938 as well as a non-cash settlement charge of $64,382, pre-tax, in the third quarter of fiscal 2015. The funded status of the Company's U.S. pension plan after remeasurement was 104%.

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