The Czechs and the Slovenes were deemed to be joint bottom of the class.

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After last year's UK entrant, Andy Abraham, finished joint-bottom, commentators questioned whether there was any point in the country entering the competition amid allegations of political voting.

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Admiral Bill Owens, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a board director at Wipro, took more of a bottom-up view.

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That joint investigation will have every tool it needs, including subpoena power, to get to the bottom of what went wrong.

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