|Exhibit 12.1                                                                                                                     
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|Income (loss) from continuing operations                                                                                         
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|Minority interests in subsidiaries                                                                                               
|Equity investment (income) loss                                                                                                  
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|Income subtotal                                                                                                                  
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|Taxes on income                                                                                                                  
|Kansas City earnings tax                                                                                                         
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|Total taxes on income                                                                                                            
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|Interest on value of leased property                                                                                             
|Interest on long-term debt                                                                                                       
|Interest on short-term debt                                                                                                      
|Mandatorily Redeemable Preferred                                                                                                 
|Securities                                                                                                                       
|Other interest expense and amortization                                                                                          
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|Total fixed charges                                                                                                              
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|Earnings before taxes on                                                                                                         
|income and fixed charges                                                                                                         
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|Ratio of earnings to fixed charges                                                                                               
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|(a)  An $87.1 million deficiency in earnings caused the ratio of earnings to fixed charges to be less than a one-to-one coverage.
|A $195.8 million net write-off before income taxes related to the bankruptcy filing of DTI was recorded in 2001.