Right Time, Right Place

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  • | 6:00 p.m. April 7, 2006
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Right Time, Right Place

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In the early 1980s, Rick Allard was in his mid-20s, working 90-hour weeks installing air conditioners in Sarasota-area homes. It was a one-man, one-truck business, and Allard didn't want to turn down any job.

 

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