Ulster clung on for a losers' bonus point but are still bottom of the pool.
However, the omens do not look good for West Ham if they are still bottom going into the new year with West Brom the only club to ever survive relegation when doing so.
The club had earlier issued a statement denying being formally served with a winding up petition by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in respect of disputed tax payments -- and their mood was not helped after a thrashing that left them still bottom of the table by four points.
But the Egyptians still finished bottom of the group with seven points.
Despite the victory Italy still finished bottom of the table, but the fact mattered little to both players, management and supporters who celebrated jubilantly in Rome.
Despite Wednesday's emphatic win over local rivals Leicestershire, Notts are still second bottom of the North Division and are relying on a complicated set of results going their way if they are to make the quarter-finals.
The result leaves Albion on 31 points, meaning they cannot escape from the bottom three, although they might still avoid finishing bottom of the table.
Yet, Americans will protest, it is still near the bottom of the pile.
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Olympus's net loss narrowed as a weaker yen boosted the value of its foreign-currency assets, though soft digital-camera sales still hurt its bottom line.
Local cable ratings on the YES Network reflect about 1% of metro area households, better than last year but still among the bottom six in the league.
Though it is still near the bottom of the UN's human-development index, it is ranked quite high for governance and freedom, coming 18th out of Africa's 53 countries.
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The result still leaves QPR rock bottom with six points while Villa are 16th with 14 points.
The yield on a 10-year Treasury note, while not setting records like the 2-year, is still a rock-bottom 2.95%.
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Many of the emerging stock markets have rebounded nicely early this year, but the majority have still not completed their bottom formation.
That the real economy is still scraping along a bottom brings hope that at some point soon it will begin a real recovery.
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El Salvador, for example, pays its bureaucrats far more than the average factory worker but still ranks towards the bottom of the corruption index.
Even when Americans' ample private donations are added in, America still falls near the bottom of the rich-nation pack in generosity to those abroad.
Those still standing at cycle bottom seize market share aplenty.
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She still ranks in the bottom few, but perhaps Whitman's approval rating is finally beginning to reflect the company's strong financials, and a stock that's trading near its all-time high.
That puts most of the oil companies in a position where they are earning less than they did in 2007 and 2008, but are still well above the bottom of earnings in 2009.
And they were still nowhere near the bottom of the schemes that brewed in Mr Vesco's head, behind the pencil moustache, the slicked-back hair and the dark glasses, the very essence of a Hollywood fraudster.
To allay concerns about reliability--Fiats still rank near the bottom of owner-satisfaction surveys in Europe, and "Fix It Again Tony" remains lodged in the memory of potential American buyers--Fiat has included a 50, 000-mile warranty on the 500 and free maintenance for three years.
The bottom line is still to win, but they'll get their fair shot at it.
J. (58th), Cleveland, Ohio (61st), and Detroit (62nd) still feature prominently near the bottom.
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