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1.
... membership a salesman we shall call Ed.   12&12 p.143, Tradition Three
Not long after the man with the double stigma knocked for admission, A.A.'s other group received into its membership a salesman we shall call Ed.


2.
... membership; among newer members, the proportion is ...   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.


3.
... membership and a clear-cut idea of what ...   BB p.29, There Is A Solution   Go to page 29 in the Big Book
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.

4.
... membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to ...   12&12 p.182, Tradition Eleven
Provided they were willing -- and many were -- why shouldn't their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to join us?

5.
... membership ever depend upon money or conformity.   12&12 p.189, Tradition Three (Long)
Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.


6.
... membership ever depend upon money or conformity.   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.

7.
... membership from a few into hundreds overnight.   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Cleveland's Plain Dealer articles about us ran that town's membership from a few into hundreds overnight.


8.
... membership had shot up to 2,000.   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
By March 1941 the membership had shot up to 2,000.


9.
... membership had then reached about 100 men ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
The membership had then reached about 100 men and women.

10.
... membership has been led to us through ...   12&12 p.180, Tradition Eleven
It is no exaggeration to say that half of A.A.'s membership has been led to us through channels like these.


11.
... membership in a religious body.   BB p.131, The Family Afterward   Go to page 131 in the Big Book
Though the family has no religious connections, they may wish to make contact with or take membership in a religious body.

12.
... membership in a year's time.   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
The news stories of Mr. Rockefeller's dinner for Alcoholics Anonymous helped double our total membership in a year's time.

13.
... membership is a desire to stop drinking."   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
"The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."

14.
... membership is a desire to stop drinking."   12&12 p.144, Tradition Three
He read aloud, "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."


15.
... membership is a desire to stop drinking.   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Three -- The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.

16.
... membership is a desire to stop drinking.   Grapevine, Preamble
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.


17.
... membership is an honest desire to stop ...   BB xiv, Foreword to First Edition   Display entire Foreword to First Edition
The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking.


18.
... membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.   BB xv, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
In that brief space, Alcoholics Anonymous has mushroomed into nearly 6,000 groups whose membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.


19.
... membership is pyramiding at the rate of ...   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
At present, our membership is pyramiding at the rate of about twenty per cent a year.


20.
... membership, leadership, and money?   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Would there be quarrels over membership, leadership, and money?

21.
... membership might angrily rush off to form ...   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
Disliking the attempt of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily rush off to form another group more to their liking.

22.
... membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management ...   12&12 p.18, Foreword
Everywhere there arose threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.


23.
... membership of A.A. has just about doubled, ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.


24.
... membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.


25.
... membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated ...   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.


26.
... membership of over two million.   BB p.162, A Vision For You (Note)   Go to page 162 in the Big Book
There is A.A. activity in approximately 150 countries, with an estimated membership of over two million.


27.
... membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule.

28.
... membership ought to include all who suffer ...   12&12 p.189, Tradition Three (Long)
Three -- Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism.


29.
... membership ought to include all who suffer ...   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
3. Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism.

30.
... membership passed the hundred thousand mark.   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
Their membership passed the hundred thousand mark.

31.
... membership regulations?   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
Why did A.A. finally drop all its membership regulations?

32.
... membership regulations.   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
As group after group saw these possibilities, they finally abandoned all membership regulations.

33.
... membership rules.   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
"At one time," he says, "every A.A. group had many membership rules.

34.
... membership rules?   12&12 p.172, Tradition Nine
Did anyone ever hear of a nation, a church, a political party, even a benevolent association that had no membership rules?


35.
... membership survey showed about one-tenth of A.A.'s ...   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism (Note)   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
But a 2001 U.S./Canada membership survey showed about one-tenth of A.A.'s were thirty and under.


36.
... membership that a new light had entered ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince the membership that a new light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.

37.
... membership, that we must never compel anyone ...   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
Why did we dare to say, contrary to the experience of society and government everywhere, that we would neither punish nor deprive any A.A. of membership, that we must never compel anyone to pay anything, believe anything, or conform to anything?

38.
... membership took years of harrowing experience.   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
To establish this principle of membership took years of harrowing experience.

39.
... membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases ...   12&12 p.23, Step One
That is why the first edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only.

40.
... membership; we are self-supporting through our own ...   Grapevine, Preamble
There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.


41.
... membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.

42.
... membership, will give such inquirers an inside ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
The second section of this volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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