Upon joining the Cardinals, Smith helped the team win the 1982 World Series.

Upon joining the organization, he entered a management training program after being held at gunpoint twice in four months as a teller.

Upon assuming office in 1981, U. S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador.

Upon being asked in a question forum on her official website about playing the tambourine, Nicks stated that she began playing the tambourine upon joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, feeling the need to do something onstage during songs that featured Buckingham or McVie.

Upon joining the team, Mourning and Hardaway quickly became the centerpiece of the Miami Heat ; Mourning's defensive presence and rebounding expertise complimented Hardaway's play-making as a point guard.

Upon joining a gang, they instantly gain a feeling of belonging and identity ; they are surrounded with individuals whom they can relate to.

Upon joining the UDA in 1984 Adair and his friends were assigned to C8, an active unit that formed part of the West Belfast Brigade's C Company, which covered the lower Shankill.

Upon establishing the protective association and battling the monopoly by practicing boycotts of tobacco sales, some farmers formed the " Silent Brigade " in an effort to apply social pressure for the purpose of terrorizing farmers into joining the Association against the Trust and holding to its boycott of raising no tobacco or selling no tobacco.

Upon joining WCW, he immediately became a part of the nWo group.

Upon completion of the Union Pacific-Central Pacific joining together in 1869 with the Golden Spike, other railroads trying to capitalize on commerce and trade also began crossing the western country.

Upon graduation, he began an apprenticeship under his father with the goal of becoming a blacksmith, but this was quickly abandoned when the young Papineau turned to law, joining his cousin Denis-Benjamin Viger.

Upon joining the Actors ' Equity Association, she adopted the surname of Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already a registered Diane Hall.

Upon joining Hendrix in late 1966, it became evident to Mitchell that the trio format of the band was similar to the recently formed Cream, and that it would allow him to become more free with his playing.

Upon joining the Wharton School, he began teaching business with classes on the law of governing finance and on the processes of commercial banking.

Upon returning from the 1994 Olympics, Kariya began contract negotiations with the Mighty Ducks in hopes of joining the team for the remainder of the 1993 – 94 NHL season.

Upon joining the party, allegiance must be sworn to the party.

Upon the joining of the two carriers, Star Alliance served 720 destinations in 110 countries with a combined fleet of 1, 650 aircraft.

Upon joining, Ezri is assigned to Deep Space Nine and promoted early, because of her extensive Starfleet experience and knowledge from the Dax symbiont, to lieutenant, junior grade.

Upon joining a local chapter, a new member is automatically enrolled into the state and national organizations.

Upon joining kolkhozes ( collective farms ), peasants had to give up their private plots of land and property, and the kolkhoz produce was sold to the state for a low price set by the state itself.

Upon entering a plea of guilty, Kennedy, then 29 years old, was sentenced to two years probation, periodic tests for drug use, treatment by joining Narcotics Anonymous, and 1, 500 hours of community service by Presiding Judge Marshall P. Young.

Upon joining Tampa Bay, Sapp was almost immediately given the starting job as right defensive tackle, a position he held for his entire nine-year stay in Tampa.

Upon joining the Islanders, Potvin wanted to wear number 7 on his uniform but was forced to take number 5, as forward Germain Gagnon was wearing number 7.

Upon joining the Cardinals he was assigned uniform number 2, which he wore for the rest of his career, as player, coach and manager.

Upon his enlistment, Beyrle chose to become a paratrooper, joining the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne's " Screaming Eagles " division, specializing in radio communications and demolition, and was first stationed in Ramsbury, England to prepare for the upcoming Allied invasion from the west.

Upon auditioning for Motown executives including Brian Holland and Robert Bateman, they had a second audition with bigger staff including Smokey Robinson and the label president and founder, Berry Gordy, who while impressed with their vocal styles advised them to come back with their own composition.

Upon the song's release and ascent to success, Gordy threatened to sue the group for releasing it in an attempt to bring them back to Motown, but he eventually cancelled his threat, and in February 1970 the brothers became the first former Motown act to win a Grammy Award for Best R & B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

Upon their implementation in 1967, the reforms brought staff strikes and student protests.

Upon assuming the role of White House Chief of Staff in 1987, Howard Baker was advised by his predecessor's staff to be prepared for a possible invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment due to Reagan's perceived laziness and ineptitude.

' Upon seeing this, the young men of the town thought it to be rather an imposition, and collected together, procured the services of the band, and under the direction of a military officer marched to the rear of the hotel, and with a wheelbarrow and shovel took the empty keg that had been broken open, and playing the dead march with flag at half staff marched to the flagpole in front of Humiston ’ s office where they dug a grave and gave the empty keg a burial with all the honors attending a soldier ’ s funeral.

Upon Field's retirement Barnes succeeded him as theatre critic, and in 1811 he became a member of the parliamentary staff.

Upon his triumphant return, he demonstrated the new weapon to his followers, growing his size in proportion to the original length of the staff.

Upon hearing the news, most of Senator Campbell's staff in Washington quit on the spot.

Upon de-merger from the DHSS the Department of Health was commonly abbreviated in internal Governmental correspondence to ' DoH ', which was also used in staff email address endings (@ doh. gsi. gov. uk ).

Upon leaving the White House at the end of her husband's first term, Cleveland is reported to have told the staff to take care of the building since the Clevelands would be returning in four years.

Upon graduating in 1974 with his master's degree, he was assigned to the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as a staff development engineer.

Upon his arrival, he is greeted by the staff, Dr. Montague ( Harvey Korman ), Dr. Wentworth ( Dick Van Patten ) and Nurse Diesel ( Cloris Leachman ).

Upon hearing about this, López called a last war council with the remaining officers of his general staff in order to decide the course of action for the upcoming battle, whether they should escape into the hill range or stay and make a stand against the attackers.

Upon inheriting Raglan in 1628, Henry Somerset, then the 5th Earl of Worcester, continued to live a grand lifestyle in the castle in the 1630s, with a host of staff, including a steward, Master of Horse, Master of Fishponds, surveyors, auditors, ushers, a falconer and many footmen.

Upon his installation he noted: " I do not intend to add anything new, not one new straw on the backs of faculty or staff or students ," Carson said.

Upon arriving at Dentonvale, Brad and Janet are greeted by the staff: Nurse Ansalong ( Nell Campbell ), Rest Home Ricky ( Rik Mayall ), and Dentonvale's supervisors, the apparently incestuous siblings Dr. Cosmo and Nation McKinley ( Richard O ' Brien and Patricia Quinn ).

Upon graduation, enlisted men would be promoted to staff sergeant ( or would retain present grade if higher ) while officers would train in grade.

Upon withdrawal, the remaining staff in Freetown were transferred to United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone ( UNIOSIL ).

Upon reassignment, its headquarters element absorbed the command staff of the inactivated XX Bomber Command.

Upon his graduation, Whiting began his career as a staff writer for various music publishers.

Upon hearing Gackt's ideas, the staff were pleased with the direction in which he had gone.

Upon sharing the lyrics with the rest of the production staff, some revisions were made, although little was changed.

Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War he reentered the military service with the rank of brigadier general in the Union Army, and was appointed chief of staff under General Winfield Scott.

Upon graduating from the Academy in 1924, with senior man honors, he was commissioned as an Ensign and served as an aide to Commandant Frederick C. Billard until 1926, when he was promoted to Lieutenant ( junior grade ) and appointed to the Coast Guard Academy staff.

Upon his return to the Maritimes, he began his radio career on CFBO in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1929 when he joined the station staff.