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Blackout means red ink for many

By Jenn Abelson

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 16, 2012

As the blackout at the Prudential Center extended deep into Thursday, businesses and merchants began counting up the losses from the power outage that shut down one of Boston’s largest office and retail complexes. For example, after keeping products on ice for nearly two days, Legal Sea Foods managers began dumping pounds of fish into trash bags Thursday afternoon because they could no longer maintain proper temperatures at the chain’s restaurant in the shopping mall.

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