IBM on Thursday expanded its recall of certain 15" monitors, saying hundreds of thousands more units have a potentially faulty part that could create a fire hazard. "The computing giant issued the original recall last March, covering its G51 and G51t models of 15" CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors. The company said that models produced between June 1997 and September 1997 resulted in 117,000 units recalled worldwide, 56,000 of which were in the United States."

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