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* United Airlines confirmed that passengers began looking elsewhere for flights in anticipation of a strike set for next week after 13,000 mechanics and cleaners rejected a contract offer.

* AT&T; Wireless Services Inc. paid $3.8 billion for the 77% of TeleCorp PCS Inc. it doesn’t already own, giving the third-biggest U.S. mobile phone company more than 900,000 new customers. The transaction was valued at $4.7 billion when announced Oct. 8.

* Jeffrey Nugent, chief executive of Revlon Inc., resigned after only two years on the job at the cosmetics maker, which has struggled with millions of dollars in losses and sales declines. A successor has not yet been named.

* World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein reached a $365-million settlement with two of his insurers that treats the terrorist attack against the complex as one event, not two as Silverstein has claimed.

* Zale Corp., the largest North American jewelry retailer, said fiscal second-quarter profit rose 33% as it sold more gold and diamond pendants, bracelets and rings. Net income rose to $95 million, or $2.70 a share, as sales rose 3.6% to $892.6 million.

* United Pan-Europe Communications shareholder Microsoft Corp. reduced its stake in Europe’s second-largest cable television company to 2.6%, down from 6.3%, according to a U.S. regulatory filing. UPC is controlled by John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp.