Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aqua and Light Gold...
...There's been a lot of hype about premium quality, whether or not it's much better," said Bill laconelli, sales manager of Aqua Cool. "It hits college students pretty hard...
...familiar mixture: lethal creature, relentless pursuers and vast quantities of saline solution. When waters off Bermuda become the killing grounds of a giant squid, tourism collapses. Whereupon an Ahabian fisherman, Whip Darling, clambers into a submarine and leads the hunt. All the old ingredients are present, from aqua horror ("the creature moved toward the unnatural thing") to Moby Dick denouement (" 'Here!' he shouted, and he drove the saw deep into the yawning beak"). In between are adrenal confrontations and detailed descriptions of marine life and death -- everything, in fact, but background music and special effects. Wait till next year...
...move that will help wean soldiers from the plastic bottles, Milwaukee- based Aqua-Chem last month shipped Operation Desert Shield three state-of- , the-art water-purification units with a total value of nearly $1 million. Each of the mobile units, which use a process called reverse osmosis to convert salt water or contaminated water to drinking water, can produce up to 3,000 gal. per hour under battlefield conditions. Together the units can meet the needs of 10,000 troops...
...Aqua-Chem sped production and delivery of the purifiers, which were originally part of a $31 million, 98-unit order that the military placed with the firm in 1987. The company plans to ship three more mobile units to the army next spring...