AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-25（在线收听）

1. Republican presidential nominee John McCain says he will stop campaigning tomorrow so he can return to Washington and focus on the country's economic crisis. He's also calling on his staff to work with Barack Obama's campaign so they can delay the debate scheduled for Friday.

2. Republican officials say Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has accepted a major change in the Bush administration bailout proposal. The officials say the 700 billion-dollar plan will include limits on the pay packages of executives whose companies benefit from it.

3. Finland's prime minister is pledging to tighten gun laws following the country's second school massacre in less than a year. Yesterday, a 22-year-old opened fire at a vocational college, killing ten people before shooting himself in the head.

4. The RCA dome is now a bowl. Fans that kept the dome's fabric roof up were shut down, allowing the roof to deflate. The Indianapolis Colts have moved to a new stadium, allowing this one to be demolished.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. deflate: v.

if a tyre, balloon etc deflates, or if you deflate it, it gets smaller because the gas inside it comes out.

2. RCA dome: n.

The RCA Dome was a domed stadium located in Indianapolis, Indiana, which was the home of the Indianapolis Colts NFL franchise for 24 seasons (1984-2007). It was completed in 1984 at a cost of $82 million as part of the Indiana Convention Center, with the costs split evenly between private and public money. It was finished nearly a year before the Colts actually moved to the city. In 1984, the Colts relocated to Indianapolis from Baltimore.