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other fluids in the pharmaceutical, microelectronic, food and
beverage, and aircraft industries. Later, Millipore diversified
into the manufacturing and sale of precision instrumentation,
chromatography, and the synthesis of DNA and peptides.
Petitioner began working for Millipore, S.A., a French
subsidiary of Millipore, in 1971 as a technical sales
representative in third-world countries. He was promoted numerous
times–-first as area manager for the USSR, the Middle East, and
Africa, then to sales manager, and in 1979, to general manager and
vice president of Millipore, S.A., where he was responsible for the
company’s European membrane division.
Millipore, S.A. contributed to a retirement account for
petitioner in France.
Relocation to the United States
On May 7, 1986, petitioner was promoted to senior vice
president of worldwide sales for Millipore (for the membrane
division). Petitioner’s promotion was announced in a general
distribution memorandum.1 Petitioner’s promotion required his and
1 General distribution memoranda were used by Millipore
to communicate quickly with its employees worldwide. Pursuant to
Millipore’s practice, such a memorandum would first be duplicated
and distributed to employees in Millipore’s Bedford,
Massachusetts, headquarters, then faxed to the foreign
subsidiaries with instructions for further dissemination to
Millipore’s worldwide employees. Subsequently, the memorandum
would be delivered into the mailboxes of the individual
employees, displayed on bulletin boards, and translated into
foreign languages.
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