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* Flight attendants at Northwest Airlines Corp. overwhelmingly rejected a five-year contract offer, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said. Union officials said 6,108, or 69%, of the valid votes turned in opposed the deal with the nation’s fourth-largest airline. There were 2,727 votes in favor of the proposed contract reached in June. The deal would have covered 10,600 flight attendants at Northwest. Terms had called for pay raises of 14% to 25%, depending on seniority, lifting Northwest flight attendants salaries from the lowest in the industry to the highest. Northwest officials said in a statement they were disappointed flight attendants did not ratify the contract the company and union leaders had reached, meaning 11,000 union members will now go back to a fourth year of negotiations.