"They've succeeded finally in achieving a lifetime limited only by the power available to the system," says particle physicist Burton Richter of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who sits on a board of advisers to Tri Alpha.
The cards also carry a lifetime limited warranty.5 SanDisk Extreme III SDHC 30MB/s Edition cards, which have a Class 6 performance rating, are fully backwards-compatible; working in any camera, card reader or other device that supports SDHC cards.6.6
From April 1999, all Britons will be able to put up to £5,000 a year, up to a lifetime limit of £50,000, into an ISA, which can contain a mixture of cash, shares and life insurance (which since 1984 has been subject to income tax).
But there has always been a parallel system of gift taxation tied to the estate tax, which sets a lifetime limit that can be given away tax-free.
It could, as Canada has done, simply set a lifetime limit – requiring plants to close once they reach a certain age, say 50, which would close Hazelwood (and begin to close some ageing plants in other states, too).
The act required recipients to begin working after two years of receiving benefits, and placed a lifetime limit of five years on benefits paid by federal funds, among other provisions.
Insurers cannot charge co-payments for preventive services or impose a lifetime limit on benefits; must allow consumers to appeal a denial of benefits; and cannot rescind coverage, except in cases of fraud or intentional misrepresentation.
The government has already proposed some, though they are not as swingeing as the curtailments imposed by America's reforms of 1996, which imposed a lifetime limit of five years on benefit claims by needy families.
Health plans generally must allow adult children up to age 26 to stay on their parents' policies and cannot charge co-payments for preventive services or impose a lifetime limit on benefits.
The law says they must be off welfare within two years, and it restricts their receipt of federal cash to a lifetime limit (regardless of whether they move from one state to another) of five years.
The judicial pensions bill will allow judges to protect their pensions from the new regime which comes into force next April, which imposes a lifetime limit of £1.5m on the value of an individual's pension arrangements, after which a tax of 25% on top of income tax will be imposed.
