Sentences with phrase «national fame when»

Bratton, 68, had served in the role since 2013, and it his second time leading the department — he rose to national fame when he presided over a drop in crime in the 1990s, popularizing the «broken windows» theory of policing and rolling out CompStat, a system for tracking crime patterns.

New Mexican Three - Chile Wings of Fire In 1977, the chicken wing gained national fame when Buffalo, NY Mayor Stan Makowski proclaimed July 29 as National Chicken Wing Day.

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The San Diego Splash rose to fame in late June 2017 when they were featured in their first ever national sports segment.

For the first time in history Fontainebleau Miami Beach will turn pink inside and out when the façade of the resort's famed curvilinear Chateau Tower and hotel lobby are illuminated pink in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The times late in his life, when people would bring up his absence in the National Football League Hall of Fame, and express disgust, and just before pushing the conversation a different direction, he would shake his head, smile and say, «It's not going to change the way I put my socks on tomorrow.»

After majoring in music at McMasters University, Reitman got his first taste of the line of work that was to bring him fame and fortune when he attended summer classes at the National Film Board.

When du Pont offers to bankroll him and the national wrestling team all the way to the 1988 Olympics, offering Mark both a shot at fame and a father figure, saying yes is a no - brainer.

Students in elementary schools in the Syracuse City School district had the opportunity to spend some time learning about healthy eating, the importance of exercise and being a good teammate when members of the Syracuse Chiefs and representatives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum came to visit classrooms.

Fullfilling one of his last goals came in 2012 when Bob McDorman was inducted into the National Corvette Museum's Corvette Hall of Fame.