Word: wolfe
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...Viking's big guns, its heavy-metal ranges and ovens, are under some pressure from such high-end rivals as Wolf, Thermador and France's La Cornue--should you absolutely need a professional-grade range. Viking also got dinged by low Consumer Reports ratings and persistent complaints about durability and uneven performance. Andrews says it's all relative. "Consumer Reports operates on a value-for-money ratio, and our products are never going to be in the lower-price range," he says. He points to Viking's one-year warranty on parts and labor and a five-year limited warranty...
...comes the hard part. Staying relevant and competitive in the appliance business is getting more difficult--just ask Maytag. Viking has attracted a slew of competition, from GE to Wolf, companies that have followed its path upmarket. The reason is obvious: Why struggle selling discount white goods when Viking has proved that you can sell a $20,000 range to a generation of gourmet-chef aspirants...
...Lang's subversive tale of a zookeeper who teaches kids a lesson by getting his birds to bite them, Wideman pens a single, luminous, 2 1/2-page sentence about an American in Brittany who hears what he wrongly thinks is a demented young boy babbling incoherently. The story's title, Wolf Whistle, is the same as a 1993 Lewis Nordan novel about Emmett Till, the real-life civil rights martyr whose name Wideman's character eventually invokes: " ... I saw for the first time two parrots singing, swaying, pecking gently at the bars of their rusted, oriental cages, two lynched birds...
After rescue helicopters had carried away Millican and three other wounded, Diaz confronted al-Quraishy, Shaker and Hanoon. How could this have happened? Al-Quraishy was supposed to be one of the best commanders the Iraqi security forces had. Nicknamed "the Wolf," he made a name for himself in Mosul in 2004 and '05, often appearing on an Iraqi true-crime television show called In the Hands of Justice, chasing down and personally interrogating militants. The Americans hoped al-Quraishy, who took over leadership of the Karbala police in the fall of 2006, could stand up to the Mahdi Army...
Meanwhile, former captain Dylan Reese ‘07 remains in contact negotiations with the New York Rangers after playing in ten regular season games and two playoff contests with the Hartford Wolf Pack, New York’s top minor league club...