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- BUSINESS, Page 52Business NotesEXECUTIVE SUITEUnbecoming An Officer
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- When a Navy consultant inadvertently left a confidential
- report at Bath Iron Works last May, officials of the Maine defense
- contractor could not resist the temptation to peek. Chairman
- William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which
- reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the Aegis guided-
- missile destroyer program. But after briefly scanning the report,
- Haggett decided he had made "an inappropriate business-ethics
- decision" and returned the document to the Navy, which launched
- an investigation.
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- Still filled with remorse, Haggett, 57, stepped aside last
- week as chief executive officer, a position he had held since
- 1983. While he will remain chairman, Haggett turned over to
- president Duane Fitzgerald day-to-day responsibility for the
- company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest
- employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe
- fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to
- set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy
- document.
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