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sales promotional material, and developed an in-house system of
tracking customers to increase sales. Because of declining
business and differences with her father about business
decisions, Ms. Burton left petitioner in 1985 and began to work
for Continental Airlines.
Ms. Burton worked at Continental Airlines until 1987 and
remained as an employee on inactive status until 1990. While at
Continental Airlines, she was a customer service agent for about
6 months and then was promoted to a supervisory position. She
very much enjoyed that job and particularly the valuable travel
benefits available by reason of that employment.
After the death of Max Burton, no employee of petitioner had
executive responsibilities other than Ms. Burton, Mr. Burton, and
Denovan. Ms. Burton was responsible for the general management
of petitioner. She directly supervised the other two officers,
established company goals and philosophies, and directed
manufacturing quality control. She was responsible for seeking
overseas manufacturers, and she personally negotiated
manufacturing and shipping agreements with them. Many of the
contracts that were negotiated by Ms. Burton were with Korean
companies. She traveled to foreign countries, including Korea,
Taiwan, and China, in order to seek overseas manufacturers and to
negotiate manufacturing and shipping agreements.
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