No market risk and the implicit (or even explicit) state guarantee: Pay a fixed amount now, and when Junior goes to a state college, his tuition is covered.

FORBES: College Dropout

The problem is that most judges have spent their careers working, in effect, as junior civil servants in a culture where accusation and guilt amount to almost the same thing.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia

Sewanee junior Kelly O'Mara said the tuition decrease would lower the amount of debt she and her parents will carry beyond her graduation in 2012.

WSJ: University of the South Slashes Tuition, Cites Economy

Oblige banks to issue a certain amount of debt (say 2% of their assets) that is junior to deposits.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus