Giving boardroom independence a shelf life

LET’S saunter down memory lane, all the way back to 1979. Tun Hussein Onn was our Prime Minister then and the leaders of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union were Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher and Leonid Brezhnev.

Watershed events that year included the start of the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the signing of the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty.