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Times Staff and Wire Reports
Ford Motor recalled about 81,000 of its new Taurus and Sable cars because they may have bad brake-fluid lights. It also recalled about 11,000 new Ford Thunderbirds and Mercury Cougars for erratic defrosters. . . . Thrifty Payless Holdings plans to raise $325 million through an initial public offering. . . . Motorola and Sun Microsystems announced a partnership to offer high-speed systems that link computer users to the Internet through cable lines.
