Economics experts have asserted that the American share of foreign and domestic markets was no greater in the 1950s than in the 1980s. If true, this would cause the author to modify the claim that:

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Option 1: the American workforce has been unable to compete with European firms.

Option 2: American business squandered its advantage over foreign competition.

Option 3: American goods can be produced in such a way as to be competitive.

Option 4: the errors made by corporate management date back to the post—World War II years.

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The author claims America once dominated and then lost ('squandered') that advantage. If its market share was no larger in the 1950s than the 1980s, there was no superior earlier position to squander, so that specific claim would need modifying. Hence option B.

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