Word: mobilized
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...situation has worsened, people in Aceh say the company should do more. Reports of atrocities committed by the troops from base A-13 have been accumulating for years. In 1998, a coalition of 17 local human rights groups accused Mobil Oil (the company assumed its current name after merging with Exxon in 1999) of ignoring this evidence, including reports that soldiers were using the corporation's earthmoving equipment to bury their victims in mass graves. At least one of those graves was thought to be on Pertamina land, less than three miles from an ExxonMobil drill site. At the time...
...village that nestles up against the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster I gas field. They didn't find him, so they took her instead. For three days, she sat in a pool of water in a warehouse fronted by a sign that read: "You are now entering the Mobil premises." The soldiers told her to remove her clothing and fondled her. Then she was dressed up in a military uniform and photographed. "I don't like to be treated like a doll," she says. "Exxon did this...
...fraudulent charges consisted of two ATM visits, one for $500 and one for $400.75. I was impressed, not only that Bronx ATMs have quarters, but also that my thief was getting just enough to meet his needs. The other Joel Stein also made two visits to a Bronx Mobil station, for $19.56 and $21. I'm guessing cigarettes and beer. The Bronx me is a lot tougher...
...takes a lot (including peepholes in every door and 24-hour room service) to qualify for a Mobil five-star rating, and most hotels don't even bother trying. But the current owners of the Jefferson believed five stars were essential to the hotel's success. This year, for the first time in its 105-year history, the Jefferson made it, becoming one of 17 U.S. hotels to hold both a Mobil five-star and a AAA five-diamond rating...
...requesting that they modify their behavior. Today's guests can bathe whenever they want and laugh to their heart's content. They can book at the last minute, stay for just a day or two and find many programs designed just for children. The hotel, rated four-star by Mobil, still delivers on the best of its original owner's dream--that it "should present a home-like and wholesome simplicity...inviting the traveler to rest a while, shut in from the busy world outside...