All county tax offices in the Tarheel State are now required to be linked to the state Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) so that t he DMV could block registration renewals on vehicles with delinquent taxes.

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Toyota Motor , the leader in hybrid vehicles, has settled a patent-infringement dispute that had threatened to block the sale of the best-selling Prius and other Toyota hybrids.

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Another important building block of e-commerce infrastructure involves activities described by Web Services Description Language, or WSDL. Oriental Motor, a Japanese distributor of industrial motors, relies on one of these programs to update the inventories and prices of the many parts it offers online.

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