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Flight attendants delay strikes

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Flight attendants at Northwest Airlines Corp. said they will delay a threatened strike by 10 days because of security concerns stemming from the foiled terrorist plot in London, and a shareholder dropped his suit against executives at the company.

A judge had not yet ruled on a request to block a strike from the carrier, which is in bankruptcy protection.

The Association of Flight Attendants had threatened to begin random, unannounced strikes after 9:01 p.m. CDT on Tuesday after Northwest imposed new pay and work rules on flight attendants without their consent. Flight attendants twice voted down negotiated agreements with the nation’s fifth-largest airline.

But on Friday, flight attendants said the new deadline would be 9:01 p.m. CDT Aug. 25. It calls its strike tactic “CHAOS,” for Create Havoc Around Our System.

New York

Ex-NYSE leader plans appeal

An attorney for Dick Grasso said Friday that the former New York Stock Exchange chairman’s legal team will soon appeal a judge’s decision to try the New York attorney general’s excessive-compensation lawsuit against Grasso without a jury.

The comments by the lawyer, Mark Zauderer, come shortly after the judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos, issued a formal order confirming his decision earlier this week to have a so-called bench trial on the key issue of whether Grasso’s pay was reasonable, ahead of any other claims in the case.

Atlanta

Coca-Cola evidence suppression sought

A lawyer for a former Coca-Cola secretary charged with stealing trade secrets from the beverage giant and offering to sell them to rival Pepsi asked a federal judge Friday to suppress a computer disc, company documents and other evidence seized from her client’s home.

Janice Singer filed a motion on behalf of her client, Joya Williams, alleging that agents provided insufficient probable cause in obtaining a warrant to search Williams’ Norcross, Ga., home and, therefore, what they found should be inadmissible.