Word: voorst
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...TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst says the year-old program has performed poorly, and faces "enormous challenges." That's because federal, state and local governments aren't working well together to train welfare recipients. "They're headed for a crunch," says Van Voorst. So far, a mere 750 companies have promised to hire at least one welfare recipient. And it's not as if the federal government is setting an example: It has, so far, hired a scant 410 welfare recipients...
...telecommunications industry that will raise $3 billion to help pay for President Clinton's universal telecom service and might at the same time save people money. "This is follow-through on the deregulation of the industry promised in the Telecommunications Act of 1996," says TIME's Bruce Van Voorst. "The proceeds are paying for the concept of universal service, which today means not just phone lines to rural areas but the wiring of libraries, schools, and hospitals for the Internet. It's the Clinton Administration's promise that the gap between have- and have-nots will not extend to information...
...hurdles remain. For one thing, any deal that would shield cigarette companies from future litigation would require an act of Congress. Tobacco firms and plaintiffs also reportedly differ on the total compensation by about $100 billion. And anti-tobacco activists may not like the deal, TIME's Bruce Van Voorst notes, feeling that the industry should be made to suffer and made to shrink. But as Kadlec notes, lawsuits are ultimately about compensation, and this may be the best deal the plaintiffs are going to get: "The plaintiffs will never be able to put the cigarette companies out of business...
...Adam Zagorin/Washington, with reporting by Bruce van Voorst...
TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Van Voorst reports that German officials notified CompuServe's local office of their pornography investigation last month. But because CompuServe was not able to block access to the Usenet group for just it's 220,000 German subscribers, the company instituted its system-wide blackout. "The Munich prosecutor's office confirmed to me that CompuServe had possibly violated Bavarian law by providing access to the material," says Van Voorst. "Bavarian police visited the CompuServe's German office in Unterhaching, a Munich suburb, looking for evidence. Right now you have a lot of German Internet...