From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... directors, executives,
staffs, and consultants.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
XI. The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants.
2.
... directors of
these entities.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
They have custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly active services, exercising
this through their ability to elect all the
directors of these entities.
3.
... directors told
him this was his last ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just returned from
a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
4.
... directors who
can cast an erring member ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
When told that our Society
has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no
board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give another a directive and enforce obedience, our friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't be. There must be
an angle somewhere."
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