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Northwest Airlines is asking a judge to temporarily authorize 19 percent pay cuts for its customer service agents and other ground workers. The cuts would save the carrier about $114 million a year, but company officials said they would only be in effect for a few months until management and the ground workers union negotiate a long-term concessionary agreement. Leaders of the pilots and flight attendants union already agreed to deep interim pay cuts that would reduce Northwest's costs by $332 million a year.