Toyota, whose market share peaked at 17 percent in 2009, as Detroit was on its knees, saw its portion of the market sink as low as 10 percent at one point last year.

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Liberal Democrats would never sink that low.

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Scores for the latter, on the other hand, began to sink, reaching a low point of 23.1 on March 21.

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In March the talking heads on TV were sure the Dow would sink forever to a new low of 5, 000 or worse.

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