Singapore earlier this year postponed its planned auction of the four licenses to April from February.

On Thursday the Treasury postponed a planned auction of 52-week bills and on Friday held an auction of 69-day cash management bills.

In 1996, Thomas Jacobson, a lawyer representing eight of the families, announced a planned auction of Dahmer's estate to raise up to $1 million, sparking controversy.

Telmex announced the planned auction on Aug. 13.

Switzerland's communications regulator said it had canceled a planned auction of GSM mobile telephone licenses and, instead, will sell the frequencies to three existing operators.

When it learned of the book, Addison-Wesley, of Reading, Mass., offered a big enough advance to pre-empt the planned auction.

France faces a test tomorrow with a planned auction of €8bn of bonds.

Publishers were also there, in anticipation of a planned auction of rights to a book Mr. Menzies is writing.

In 1990 a planned auction at Sotheby's was canceled after Hungary, Yugoslavia and Lebanon all claimed ownership.

Bowing to union pressure, the President suspended the planned auction of Mafersa, a heavily subsidized state-owned bus and railroad car manufacturer.