United States Steel said it will eliminate...

United States Steel said it will eliminate 170 jobs at its central research facility, leaving about 330 people on a staff that numbered about 1,500 in the mid 1970s . . . Baxter Travenol Laboratories reported that the stockholders of Compucare have approved the merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of Baxter Travenol into Compucare . . . Meredith Corp. said it has completed the previously reported purchase of Carson Broadcasting, owner of an independent television station in Las Vegas . . . Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke has broadened his efforts to acquire Multimedia Inc. by filing suit against the firm and asking the South Carolina Securities Commission to look into whether Multimedia’s proposed recapitalization plan provides “full and fair disclosure” of all pertinent information to shareholders.