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...David Willman of the Los Angeles Times, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, is among the finalists for his investigative report on prescription drugs...
...Willman exposed the risks of the prescription drug Rezulin, an oral diabetes treatment that had been hastily approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
...reported that former Station Casino St. Charles [Mo.] customer Sharon Willman continued to get solicitations from the casino in spite of efforts to have her name removed from a promotional mailing list. We would like your readers to know that Willman's name was removed from our mailing list Nov. 1 after a database error was discovered Our company made a mistake, admitted it and corrected it. JACK TAYLOR, Director Corporate Public Relations Station Casinos Inc. Las Vegas...
...their customers are, building vast databases and utilizing the techniques of direct-mail marketing to zero in on specific consumers. As the gaming industry cranks up these sophisticated new techniques to seek out new customers, it's coming under scrutiny for targeting--knowingly or not--pathological gamblers like Willman. Indeed, a federal commission will soon start hearings into just such marketing practices...
...grade school, the sight of children wearing casino T shirts and singing the riverboat's theme song received critical coverage in a local newspaper. Then there was the woman who tried to have her dead husband's name removed from the mailing lists of the Station Casino, which Sharon Willman is having trouble with. She was told that the only way to have his name deleted was to appear in person with a copy of his death certificate. The lesson being, perhaps, that in the fight for the gambler's dollar, dying may not be enough...