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... thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are ...   12&12 p.15, Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.

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... thousand dollars.   12&12 p.164, Tradition Seven
When her will was read, it was discovered she had left Alcoholics Anonymous in trust with the Alcoholic Foundation a sum of ten thousand dollars.

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... thousand dollars.   12&12 p.164, Tradition Seven
We needed that ten thousand dollars.

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... thousand dollars, and adopted a formal, airtight ...   12&12 p.165, Tradition Seven
Difficult as it was, they officially declined that ten thousand dollars, and adopted a formal, airtight resolution that all such future gifts would be similarly declined.


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... thousand dollars for that year.   BB p.3, Bill's Story   Go to page 3 in the Big Book
The exercise of an option brought in more money, leaving us with a profit of several thousand dollars for that year.

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... thousand dollars to do with what it ...   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
One A.A. group was given five thousand dollars to do with what it would.

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... thousand dollars under consideration wasn't much, but ...   12&12 p.164, Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.

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... thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. ...   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.


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... thousand likes to be told anything about ...   BB p.103, Working With Others   Go to page 103 in the Big Book
We would not even do the cause of temperate drinking any good, for not one drinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol by one who hates it.

10.
... thousand mark.   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
Their membership passed the hundred thousand mark.


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... thousand of us and our families.   BB p.15, Bill's Story   Go to page 15 in the Big Book
In one western city and its environs there are one thousand of us and our families.


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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