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Article: People of the Year '03: turning over the Crystal Ball: Tom Lied: landscape contracting.
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- Landscape Management
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Special 'lifetime' achievement
None of us can predict the future with any certainty. Some of us help build it, however. For almost 30 years, Tom Lied was the chairman of the Crystal Ball Committee, and he has been and remains a great builder whether he's designing a project in which he remains active or, on a grander scale, building an industry. He's recently passed on the latter task to colleagues.
We think it entirely proper to honor Tom Lied a second time within the pages of our magazine, recognizing, in particular, his efforts in advancing the mission the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA). Indeed, it's difficult to conceive of the ...