Last week, the Bush administration took the first steps toward imposing broad restrictions on imported steel.

Now Florida is moving toward what had been unthinkable here for years: broad restrictions on boating, including a 30-mile-an-hour speed limit and mandatory training courses.

But there has been a move in Congress and in various states to adopt broader restrictions.

Even more important has been the administration's effort to enact some of the broadest restrictions on foreign-made steel in over a decade.

Although some re-regulation will be needed to control excessive speculation and calm small investors, they say, broad new restrictions are not the answer.

He has, for example, imposed excessively broad restrictions on what participants in the trial may say outside the courtroom.

But even here, the authors argue, broad restrictions on foreign ownership are hard to justify.

State judges have ruled that only the Legislature has the power to issue broad restrictions on smoking for the entire state.

The only question was, would the Court use the case as a chance to impose broad new restrictions on affirmative action.

But nine other states said the deal was too lenient, and have continued to press for broader restrictions.