From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REPUTATION occurs
7 times
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1.
... reputation.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
"What we are really
afraid of," he said, "is our
reputation.
2.
... reputation.
BB p.148,
To Employers
3.
... reputation and
feels he is doing very ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He is
striving to
recover fortune and
reputation and
feels he is doing
very well.
4.
... reputation, but
knows in his heart he ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
He
wants to
enjoy a
certain reputation, but
knows in his
heart he doesn't
deserve it.
5.
... reputation of
another.
BB p.80,
Into Action
He thus used his
own wrong-doing as a
means of
destroying the
reputation
of another.
6.
... reputation of
his partner, disgrace his family ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
If he
opened that
old affair, he was
afraid it
would
destroy the
reputation of his
partner,
disgrace his
family and
take away his
means of
livelihood.
7.
... reputation or
face jail, but we are ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
We may
lose our
position
or
reputation or
face jail, but we are
willing.
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