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SPECIAL TOPICS IN INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE GRAMMAR
(Companies' social expenses reached (lit. reach) Y5,627.4 billion
last year)

(Kirin announces the world's beer consumption in '90)

The sum of sum-verbs is usually dropped.

Examples:
<b%
(3) a. %(*I, 70 '~(%)95+(~)%$i(~a)
(US to totally abolish CFCs (chloro-fluorocarbons) in '95)

(Satellite industry begins foreign market development)

D. Da after N and Adj(na)stem
Da after nouns and na-adjective stems is usually dropped.
Examples:

(1 1,105 killed in traffic accidents last year)

(Plant export to SE Asia flourishes)
E. Tense
In headlines past events are represented using the nonpast tense (e.g., (la),
(lc)). Because the nonpast tense also represents future events, whether an
event is a future one or a past one is known from other headline elements (e.g.,
(2a), (3a)) or from the text (e.g., (lb), (3b)).
F. Abbreviations
a. Country names
Country names are often abbreviated.