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A decade ago, Detroit responded to the inroads of foreign competition by bringing out a fleet of compacts; within four years, the imports' share of the market was cut in half.

From Time Magazine Archive

Americans bought more than 2.3 million foreign cars last year, pushing the imports' share of U.S. auto sales to an unprecedented 22%.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the next twelve months, GM hopes to sell about 275,000 Chevettes, enough to help reduce imports' share of the U.S. market 5% to around 15%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another Detroit peeve is the imports' low prices.

From Time Magazine Archive

In your seventh you again complain, for that I touch your 'seeming imports'; saying, 'I do not use to say as John Bunyan, this I say, and I dare to say.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John