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①All of this caused a crisis of confidence.
②Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted.
③They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well.
④The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America’s industrial decline.
⑤Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.

翻译：
所有这一切引发了一场信心危机。美国人不再视繁荣为理所当然之事。他们开始相信自己的商业经营方式不灵了，也相信不久他们的收入会因此而下降。20世纪80年代中期，人们对美国产业衰退的原因展开一次又一次的调查。偶尔一些耸人听闻的调查结果充斥着对海外竞争压力日益增长的警告之词。