From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... employ alcoholics
where they are going to ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Eight (Long)
But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for which we
might otherwise have to engage nonalcoholics.
2.
... employ alcoholics
where they are going to ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for which we
might otherwise have to engage nonalcoholics.
3.
... employ nonalcoholics
as secretaries; we had to ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
At the Foundation(*) and intergroup offices, we
couldn't employ nonalcoholics as secretaries; we had to have people who knew the A.A. pitch.
4.
... employ of
a large manufacturing concern, selling ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
The next three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, and Montreal in the employ of a
large manufacturing
concern, selling railway supplies, gas engines of all sorts, and many other items of heavy hardware.
5.
... employ our
mental faculties with assurance, for ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Under these conditions
we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use.
6.
... employ special
workers."
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
"Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers."
7.
... employ special
workers.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Eight -- Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
8.
... employ, that
is to say the spiritual ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences
known to man, but who had been
cured by the very means I had been trying to
employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.
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