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DESPITE RELEASING A STATEMENT in August about the need of corporations to redefine their purposes from only delivering value to shareholders to taking into account all stakeholders, members of the Business Roundtable who signed the pledge who were contacted by Bloomberg News said that they were already operating in the new way, so they did not really see a need to change how they do business. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/CHRIS RATCLIFFE

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