11.   Kelly acknowledged that as a child and grandchild of firefighters she never realized the dangers inherent in the job until she joined the department herself.

12.   Officer Buckley said the attitude of the Police Department toward gay men and lesbians had improved considerably since she joined the department eight years ago.

13.   Police said Rosal joined the department three years ago after transferring from the California State Police Department, which was merged last year into the California Highway Patrol.

14.   The decision-maker at Justice will be R. Hewitt Pate, a Virginia antitrust lawyer who joined the department last month as deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division.

15.   The group said that the policy further deterred minorities from joining the department, because time in those jobs helped qualify holders to become police officers.

16.   The following year, he joined the department of urban studies and planning at MIT.

17.   They had joined the department to fight fires, not to be doctors, they said at the emotional meeting last month.

18.   Told that the city had no money to pay her, Ms. Spivack joined the department as a volunteer.

19.   When Farrell joined the department, his blood had been tested as part of a program to screen for potential bone marrow donors, Dennis Farrell said.