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Why Dorchester has much more to offer than retirement life Author: Online Stories Published: 22nd August 2017 13:10 Brewery Square , Dorchester" height="333" src="http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/images/imgstore/459_p638_x66ctsnytn.jpg" title=" Brewery Square , Dorchester" width="500" /> "The town is populous, tho' not large, the streets broad, but the buildings old, and low; however, there is good company and a good deal of it; and a man that coveted a retreat in this world might as agreeably spend his time, and as well in Dorchester, as in any town I know in England." - Daniel Defoe, ‘A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain' (1724-1726) Following research by Prudential highlighting Dorset as the second best place to retire in the UK, the county town of Dorchester can be a popular choice , having previously been listed in Royal Mail's top ten most desirable postcodes in England. The home of Thomas Hardy has ...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...