"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" also bears a further distinction, as the first exploitation picture made at a major studio.
While many American towns feature plaques proclaiming that "George Washington slept here," Berkeley Springs bears the distinction of a landmark — a rather crude tub of rocks — that indicates where Washington bathed.
The Talmud, the compilation of Jewish law and commentary that was written in the years 200-500 C.E., bears witness to a distinction between "friends," who undertook to keep Jewish law strictly, and "people of the land," who were ignorant of the fine points and couldn't be trusted to, for instance, tithe their crops properly.
While Russia is a major supplier of heavy weapons, China bears the distinction of providing an estimated 90percentt of Sudan's small arms imports, the very weapons used to kill civilians.
Because of the high frequency of monosyllabic words, many Omotic languages use tonal distinctions to bear a considerable functional load in conveying the meaning of a word.
The Belnord is a building of extremes, and it bears the distinction of having one of the most fraught real estate histories in all of New York City.
Mr. Thompson, 51, who reluctantly bears the distinction of being the first African-American to head a major Silicon Valley technology concern, said he was determined not to let Wall Street's obsession with short-term results distract him.
The part of Capote goes to the British actor Toby Jones, who bears the distinction of looking exactly like him.
So remote, in fact, that it bears the distinction of being the remotest inhabited community in the western hemisphere.
