STRICTLY in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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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.

... 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?

... 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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