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... business.'
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
2.
... business.'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
'Give me the business.'
3.
... business.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told: "How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.
4.
... business?
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?
5.
... business.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
6.
... business.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Before then, I had written lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this time I meant business.
7.
... business.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
It may mean the loss of many nights' sleep, great interference with your pleasures, interruptions to your business.
8.
... business.
BB p.109,
To Wives
He is positive he can handle his liquor, that it
does him no harm, that drinking is necessary in
his business.
9.
... business.
BB p.136,
To Employers
Among many employers nowadays, we
think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.
10.
... business.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Of an evening, you can go on
a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
11.
... business.
BB p.141,
To Employers
12.
... business.
BB p.143,
To Employers
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without
recovery we would have lost both home and business.
13.
... business.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
He trembled as he went
about, for this might mean ruin, particularly to a
person in his line of business.
14.
... business.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
I'm ready to do business.
15.
... business.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
16.
... business.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
17.
... business acquaintances
and friends we have hurt, ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
18.
... business affairs?
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
19.
Business and
financial leaders were my heroes.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
20.
... business and
for a time all was ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
21.
... business and
had retired, he would not ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business and
had retired, he would not touch another drop.
22.
... business, and
none came.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
23.
... business and
professional experience to their service ...
12&12 p.169,
Tradition Eight (Note)
24.
Business and
professional men have regained their ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
25.
... business as
well as law.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
26.
... business associates.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and
business associates.
27.
... business associates
didn't suffer, because we were ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
28.
... business associates
remained skeptical for a year ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a
half, during which I found little work.
29.
... business associates,
we find that we still ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
30.
... business, but
saw that he would get ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
31.
... business came
off well, I was pleased ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
32.
... business career.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
An exceptional man, he
remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
33.
... business community
unknown thousands of dollars, for ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.
34.
... business deal
which was to be settled ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have had many men who had,
for example, worked a period of months on some problem or business deal which was to be settled
on a certain date, favorably to them.
35.
... business enthusiastically.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
If it is a happy occasion, try to increase the pleasure of
those there; if a business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
36.
... business, even
though we had been surrounded ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
For alcoholism had been a lonely business, even though we had been surrounded by people who
loved us.
37.
... business fabric
is shot through with a ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation
which might be helped by better understanding
all around.
38.
Business failure,
insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these
calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
39.
... business fairly
well.
BB p.109,
To Wives
40.
... business, give
him a chance to try ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.
41.
... business he
had lost through drinking.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
His family was re-assembled, and he began to
work as a salesman for the
business he had lost through drinking.
42.
... business hours.
BB p.146,
To Employers
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.
43.
... business hours,
drinking only at parties, switching ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at
home, never having it in the
house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties,
switching from scotch
to brandy, drinking only
natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a
solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational
books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
44.
... business, I
thought, is totally unscientific.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
45.
... business, in
the well-being of employees.
BB p.149,
To Employers
46.
... business is
as good as can be ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
47.
... business is
to be successful, he cannot ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
48.
... business life,
at least from the alcoholic ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
We, who have collectively seen a great deal of business life, at least from the alcoholic angle, had to smile at this gentleman's
sincere opinion.
49.
... business man
had ability, good sense, and ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
50.
... business man,
it is Fred.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
51.
... business man,
want to know the necessities ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
52.
... business man
who lolls in the Florida ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the retired
business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
53.
... business may
call him.
BB p.147,
To Employers
If he is conscientiously following the program of
recovery he can go anywhere your business may call him.
54.
... business may
suffer somewhat.
BB p.109,
To Wives
55.
... business meeting
and blow his top over ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an
A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
56.
... business meetings.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Their treasurer, strictly accountable,
takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.
57.
... business men
everywhere.
BB p.136,
To Employers
58.
... business, might
finance any enterprise whatever in ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The A.A. groups, many thought, could go into business, might finance any enterprise whatever in
the total field of alcoholism.
59.
... business occasion,
go and attend to your ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
If it is a happy occasion, try to increase the pleasure of
those there; if a business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
60.
... business of
being self-satisfied.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something
one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
61.
... business of
drinking with much greater earnestness ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
62.
... business of
living alone with our conflicts, ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
63.
... business of
resentment is infinitely grave.
BB p.66,
How It Works
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth
of a spiritual experience, this business
of resentment is infinitely grave.
64.
... business of
winning fame, money, and what ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought
was leadership.
65.
... business, only
to bring still more suffering ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his
business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by
foolishly admitting
his plight to people from
whom he made his livelihood?
66.
... business opportunity.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
67.
... business or
both, then the following suggestions ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business
or both, then the following suggestions
may be helpful.
68.
... business, or
community we attract widespread affection ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
When by devoted service
to family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
69.
... business or
employment record, almost any alcoholic ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Surveying his business or
employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking
problem, what character defects contributed to my financial instability?
70.
... business, or
he may be so enthralled ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
He may either plunge into
a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
71.
... business, or
personal reason for going to ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
72.
... business or
professional folk, we could not ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations
in such an event."
73.
... business or
professional folk, we could not ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations
in such an event.
74.
... business or
professional success ahead of spiritual ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think
dad will be on a firmer foundation than
the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.
75.
... business rival,
giving him no receipt for ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
While drinking, he accepted a sum of money from a bitterly-hated business rival, giving him no receipt for it.
76.
... business, romance,
friendship, health -- these things are ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
But the head of the house has
spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.
77.
... business standpoint,
his trip came off badly.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
78.
... business tales
or criticize his associates?
BB p.145,
To Employers
Can he talk frankly with
you so long as he does not bear business tales or criticize his associates?
79.
... business, there
is no doubt you should ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
80.
... business there
will be rivalries and, arising ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
Wherever men are gathered together in
business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.
81.
... business, these
terrible fears often continued to ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
Even when we were well reestablished in our business, these terrible fears often continued to haunt us.
82.
... business; too
many busybody cooks spoil the ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Whereupon we tried A.A. hospitals -- they all bogged down because you cannot put an A.A. group into business; too many busybody cooks spoil the broth.
83.
... business venture
which had collapsed, leaving him ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might
start drinking again.
84.
... business!' we
said.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
85.
... business which
takes no regular inventory usually ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
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