He said the government should "not overregulate those who are trying to create work."

"His goal was to make some modifications so that it would not overregulate the industry," she added.

"Americans are familiar with the tendency to overregulate in other areas," the report declared.

If that were so, federal laws would overregulate some states while underregulating others.

"When you don't know something, you tend to overregulate it."

The lawmakers rejected the Administration's arguments that the proposed legislation would overregulate society.

For now we want to make it very clear that we don't want to overregulate the Internet.

European governments spend and tax heavily, overregulate their labor markets and maintain excessively costly social programs.

"It's not our intention to overregulate," said Jodie Bernstein, director of the agency's consumer protection bureau.

She added that the school board could ban all gift-giving, but that it does not want to overregulate student-teacher relationships.

Lawyers seek legislation to overregulate H.M.O.'s.

"They're going to overregulate it, and they're going to force a lot of people out of it," Mrs. Newsome said.

Caution on Excess Regulation Mr. Greenspan said, however, that American authorities had to be careful not to overregulate the financial markets.

Under President Jimmy Carter, the O.M.B. started reviewing Federal rules and pressured agencies not to overregulate.

Michael K. Powell, the F.C.C.'s chairman, has said that he is reluctant to overregulate new technologies in ways that could hinder their development.

He contended that the two terms of his comparison shared "a mania for [state] intervention", and argued that the National Liberals had a tendency to overregulate the economy.

Just as a prosecutor is tempted to overprosecute when he's spending other people's money, so also is a regulator tempted to overregulate when he's playing with other people's health.

"We don't want to overregulate, but we want the planning done up front because it is our fiduciary responsibility to make sure we have a successful development at the end, which has happened elsewhere in the nation."

"Because of the importance of this market, it was felt that we needed to be meticulous about insuring that we do not overregulate, because overregulation carries a cost that is borne by all of us, the taxpayers."

But he said the association was concerned that "there is a significant danger here in the temptation to respond to the emotion of the moment and try to overregulate, and then either nothing will be accomplished or the situation will become even more disruptive."

Eugene Rotberg, the former vice president and treasurer of the World Bank, sees the opposite danger: The package of rule changes goes too far and will overregulate the market on which the Government relies to finance its debt at the lowest possible cost.

"The evidence is clear, at least based on my personal experience," he said, "that Federal money goes farther, does more good, has a bigger impact, if we stop trying to micromanage it and overregulate it, and instead let it be spent where the people and the problems are."

"What is out of sync is the distortion of our record by the Administration and by radical environmental groups who want to continue to overregulate the economy," said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, head of the House Republican Conference.

Hindemith is too good a craftsman to overregulate musical pulse, yet there is an overarching steadiness, an impression of understated march time in his pieces that says: "Mistrust excitement for its own sake; be in control; it is enough for music to make sense."

I am concerned that the EU continues to overregulate; it continues to produce legislation that is too detailed, imposes too much red tape on enterprise, and is significantly harming the prosperity of Europe and its Member States, including, of course, the United Kingdom.