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* The Federal Communications Commission said it will delay for seven months one of two June 19 auctions of licenses for airwaves eventually to be abandoned by television broadcasters.

* A lawsuit alleging discrimination by Boeing Co. against Middle Eastern and Asian American engineers has been certified as a class action by a federal judge in Seattle. The class covers 1,000 to 2,000 engineers in Washington state who worked for Boeing after Oct. 12, 1996.