From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... area, and
the General Service Conferences of ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is in this spirit of service that we elect the A.A. group's informal rotating committee, the intergroup association for the area,
and the General Service
Conferences of Alcoholics Anonymous
for A.A. as a whole.
2.
... area and
tries to tell the group ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Who is more unpopular
than the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?
3.
... area it
is startling to discover how ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
In this area it is startling to discover
how dependent we really
are, and how unconscious of that dependence.
4.
... area, let
him try leaving liquor alone ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
5.
... area of
human relations, and having decided ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us
injured and disturbed
others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom
we have given offense.
6.
... area's telephone
rings unanswered, if we do ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
If nobody does the group's
chores, if the area's telephone rings unanswered, if we do not reply to our mail, then A.A. as we know it would stop.
7.
... area their
central or intergroup committee, which ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and
the groups of a large metropolitan area their
central or intergroup
committee, which often
employs a full-time secretary.
8.
... area their
central or intergroup committee, which ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and
the groups of a large metropolitan area their
central or intergroup
committee, which often
employs a full-time secretary.
9.
... area there
are seldom any questions of ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
10.
... area where
instincts are threatened.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
It should be remembered that this kind of insecurity may arise in any area where instincts are threatened.
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