From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... charge.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave
his medical services without thought of charge.
2.
... charge accounts,
manipulate the food budget, spend ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate
the food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance.
3.
... charge of
the alcoholic problem in industry, ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when
A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
4.
... charge this
off as you would a ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
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