Times Mirror reported that it has completed...

Times Mirror reported that it has completed the previously announced purchase of A. S. Abell Co., publisher of the Baltimore Sun newspapers, for $600 million in cash . . . Los Angeles women’s fashion designer Carole Little Inc. said it has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission an initial stock offering of 1.12 million shares . . . Microsoft introduced a new word-processing computer program that enables documents to be shared between Apple Macintosh computers and IBM PCs.