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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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SECRETARIES   occurs   4 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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... secretaries,(*) but they certainly are not professional ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
They are professional secretaries,(*) but they certainly are not professional A.A.'s.

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... secretaries hired.   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed, and a few full-time secretaries hired.

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... secretaries in offices, authors writing books -- all ...   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
Caretakers who swept floors, cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries in offices, authors writing books -- all these we have seen hotly assailed because they were, as their critics angrily remarked, "making money out of A.A."

4.
... secretaries; we had to have people who ...   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.


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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