The following recommendations are generic for all types of cardiac stress tests: 1  Do not eat or drink for three hours prior to the procedure. This reduces the likelihood of nausea that may accompany strenuous exercise after a heavy meal. 2  Specific heart medicines may need to be stopped one or two days prior to the test.
San Francisco mayor Frank Jordan declared a state of emergency in the city as the looting continued into the night. a condition, declared by a government, in which martial law applies, usually because of civil unrest or natural disaster.
state of affairs definition, state of affairs meaning | English dictionary. state. 9 often cap one of a number of areas or communities having their own governments and forming a federation under a sovereign government, as in the U.S. n a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies.