The issue of reinstituting quotas is crucial since the practice had been abandoned two years ago and was adhered to with great difficulty before that.

They say his call for strengthening the state ethics commission and reinstituting the public advocate's office will have nominal price tags.

To cover that, Mr. Ferrer has suggested reinstituting a tax on the sales of stocks, a proposal that has been roundly criticized as antibusiness.

As another indication of the public's return to the rails, Amtrak is reinstituting service to Atlantic City from New York and Philadelphia on Tuesday and is hoping to resume service from Washington to Cape Cod on weekends beginning Friday.