And surveying it, while armed guards surveyed us, we couldn't help thinking that if President Reagan had stood where we were standing he might have got a better handle on the problem of the deficit.
This was the thinking behind Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, a model for a jail where a single watching guard could survey a whole prison of inmates (the model, by the way, for Zamyatin's One State).
The Victorian reformer's famous panopticon prison design, never fully realised, proposed to arrange cells in a circle around a central point, allowing a single guard "to survey the whole establishment in the twinkling of an eye".
In the 2002 case of the suspected bin Laden aide facing trial in the stabbing of a jail guard, a survey of six jurisdictions conducted four months after 9/11 found that while overall prejudice was greater in Manhattan, the difference was less than expected.
A future study is planned to compare pedestrian counts obtained by the Toronto Police during the crossing guard eligibility site survey, to those obtained after the guard is implemented, in order to control for the differences in exposure.
The guards tensed and surveyed the distant palm groves every time somebody marked the passage of the cortege by firing into the air.
He left his deputy to look after damage control in Turkey, and instead presented an unruffled face to the world, surveying guards of honour at airports through his sunglasses, laying wreaths and talking trade and business.
Official Sudanese media claimed at the time that Egypt had begun prospecting for manganese and that metals experts, shadowed by armed guards, were seen surveying the area, which Khartoum deemed provocative.
Kawlin was attacked in the middle of the night, and the garrison had been so weakened by furnishing escorts and guards to railway and survey parties, that only fifty-two men remained in the fighting.
In 2001, some 2,300 private commercial buildings reported spending an average of 49 cents a square foot on security each year, most of it for guards, according to a survey by BOMA.
