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

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FOUNDATION   occurs   46 times 6 in BB  •  40 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... foundation?  BB Into Action, p.75
Have we skimped on the cement put into the foundation?


2.
  ... Foundation a dollar apiece, and here I ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
I felt especially virtuous as I thought of all the ex-drunks who wouldn't even send the Foundation a dollar apiece, and here I was gladly making a five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.


3.
  ... Foundation a sum of ten thousand dollars.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
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.


4.
  ... Foundation(*), A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
They wrote the Foundation(*), A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting to know about this sort of streamlining.


5.
  ... Foundation(*) and intergroup offices, we couldn't employ ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
At the Foundation(*) and intergroup offices, we couldn't employ nonalcoholics as secretaries; we had to have people who knew the A.A. pitch.


6.
  ... Foundation board already knew of a total ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
They pointed out that the Foundation board already knew of a total of half a million dollars set aside for A.A. in the wills of people still alive.


7.
  ... Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment.


8.
  ... Foundation's financial policy.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.165
Bare running expenses plus a prudent reserve would henceforth be the Foundation's financial policy.


9.
  ... Foundation for a charter.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for a charter.


10.
  ... foundation for life.  12&12 Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
An unshakable foundation for life.


11.
  ... foundation for life.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life.


12.
  ... Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General ...  12&12 Tradition Three (Note), p.140
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


13.
  ... Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General ...  12&12 Tradition Four (Note), p.148
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


14.
  ... Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General ...  12&12 Tradition Seven (Note), p.162
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


15.
  ... Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.168
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


16.
  ... Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General ...  12&12 Tradition Nine (Note), p.173
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


17.
  ... Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Note), p.182
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


18.
  ... Foundation is wealthy -- why should I bother?"  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
Relieved of responsibility, every alcoholic would shrug and say, "Oh, the Foundation is wealthy -- why should I bother?"


19.
  ... Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics and their families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.


20.
  ... Foundation obtained money from outside sources, its ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
Whoever pays the piper is apt to call the tune, and if the A.A. Foundation obtained money from outside sources, its trustees might be tempted to run things without reference to the wishes of A.A. as a whole.


21.
  ... foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Twelve -- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.


22.
  ... foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Tradition Twelve -- "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."


23.
  ... foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."


24.
  ... foundation of complete willingness I might build ...  BB Bill's Story, p.12
Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw in my friend.


25.
  ... foundation of his life will have to ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.


26.
  ... foundation of them all.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.


27.
  ... Foundation office.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
The head promoter wrote the Foundation office.


28.
  ... Foundation office(*) asked each group to send ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
Our Foundation office(*) asked each group to send in its list of 'protective' regulations.


29.
  ... Foundation office is now the General Service ...  12&12 Tradition Three (Note), p.140
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


30.
  ... Foundation office is now the General Service ...  12&12 Tradition Four (Note), p.148
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


31.
  ... Foundation office is now the General Service ...  12&12 Tradition Seven (Note), p.162
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


32.
  ... Foundation office is now the General Service ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.168
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


33.
  ... Foundation office is now the General Service ...  12&12 Tradition Nine (Note), p.173
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


34.
  ... Foundation office is now the General Service ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Note), p.182
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


35.
  ... Foundation, once an independent board, is today ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
Even our Foundation, once an independent board, is today directly accountable to our Fellowship.


36.
  ... foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.


37.
  ... foundation stone of your recovery.  BB Working With Others, p.97
Helping others is the foundation stone of your recovery.


38.
  ... foundation than the man who is placing ...  BB The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.


39.
  ... Foundation that it could issue no charter, ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
By his eloquence he allayed all fears, despite advice from the Foundation that it could issue no charter, and that ventures which mixed an A.A. group with medication and education had come to sticky ends elsewhere.


40.
  ... Foundation, the same story repeats itself.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
At the Foundation, the same story repeats itself.


41.
  ... Foundation their dollars.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
I who had boasted my generosity that morning was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who had forgotten to send the Foundation their dollars.


42.
  ... Foundation was discontinued.  BB Preface, p.xi
The second printing of the first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience"; in the second edition, the appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the Alcoholic Foundation was discontinued.


43.
  ... Foundation was really hard up just then; ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.


44.
  ... Foundation were having their quarterly meeting.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
One night in 1948, the trustees of the Foundation were having their quarterly meeting.


45.
  ... Foundation would one day become rich.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
If outside donations weren't declined, absolutely cut off, then the Foundation would one day become rich.


46.
  ... Foundation(*) wrote letters to practically every news ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
The Foundation(*) wrote letters to practically every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and emphasizing personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection.


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