From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... strictly accountable,
takes money from the hat ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Their treasurer, strictly
accountable, takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.
2.
... strictly personal
matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
While on the subject of confidence, can you adopt
the attitude that so far as
you are concerned this will be a strictly personal matter, that his
alcoholic derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?
3.
... strictly reliant
on its own conscience as ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
This meant, of course, that
we had been given the courage to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.
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