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Back in the 1960s when Medicaid passed into law with scant attention, a few brave analysts dared to suggest that the poor might be better served at far lower cost if the money were spent on developing well-staffed, multidisciplinary health clinics in chronically underserved inner cities and rural areas--sort of like, well, HMOs.
Walking back to the center of the plateau you’ll pass scant remains of the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia founded in the fourth century b.c., but your eyes will be drawn to the immense structure of the Parthenon, which dominates today’s Acropolis site.
Chris Patten, who himself comes from the "wet" side of the Tory fence, sharply increased social spending in his budgets, the business community thundered (rightly, I happen to think) that the proposals had been introduced with scant regard for long-term implications.
Critics rank Spike Lee's Oedipal basketball drama--starring Denzel Washington as a convict and the NBA's Ray Allen as his estranged son--at the top of his oeuvre . After paying Lee's recent films scant attention, they declare him "underrated" and "overlooked" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). They're pleased to find that Allen can act, that Washington has a mean streak, and that Lee critiques capitalism more than he does racism.
This first palace was destroyed by the earthquake c1700 b.c. and there are scant remains of it left in the northwest of the site.