From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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.
2.
... 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.
3.
... thousand dollars.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
4.
... 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.
5.
... thousand dollars
for that year.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
The exercise of an option brought in more money, leaving us with a profit of
several thousand dollars for that year.
6.
... thousand dollars
to do with what it ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
7.
... 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.
8.
... 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.
9.
... thousand likes
to be told anything about ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
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
11.
... thousand of
us and our families.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
12.
... thousand souls.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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