On the other hand, Lin Huaibin, the manager responsible for China vehicle sales forecasts for IHS Automotive, a leading independent consulting firm, still expects the market to grow by 10 percent in 2011, stimulated by subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles as well as the more than 9.5 percent GDP growth forecast by the IHS economist.

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The deal at the center of the case filed Friday was done in early 2007, a time when the manager responsible was telling colleagues that the securitization market was about to take a turn for the worse.

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Not long after the incident, Kings general manager Dean Lombardi theorized that the clock was responsible for the pause.

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