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Bethune

American  
[buh-thyoon, -thoon] / bəˈθyun, -ˈθun /

noun

  1. Mary McLeod 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil rights leader.


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“The argument for having lower rates is just evaporating right before our very eyes,” said Brian Bethune, an economist at Boston College, in an interview with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch

“You’re really talking about problems for the Fed in terms of putting a lid on inflation,” Bethune said.

From MarketWatch

But the bond market has switched gears and looks like it would react negatively to that prospect, pushing long-term rates higher if the Fed cuts aggressively, said Brian Bethune, an economist at Boston College.

From MarketWatch

One February afternoon I told my social-studies teacher that King wasn’t a real hero—that he was weak—and that Black History Month should focus on someone else, like Mary McLeod Bethune.

From The Wall Street Journal

About one hundred feet up that path sat the Mary McLeod Bethune Grade School, the white wooden two-room schoolhouse where our town’s Colored children were educated.

From Literature