Earlier Sunday, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) admitted they would be "very surprised" if the reports proved to be true.
President Obama last week promised a "vigorous investigation" into the issue, warning that it would be a "game changer" for US policy if the reports were to be proved true.
Here was his son Steve, predicting the most amazing things about the economy--which later proved to be true.
This proved to be true and less than a month later, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
"Firm action" would ensue if the claims proved to be true, he added.
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As the 20 years that followed the ABM Treaty clearly demonstrated, none of this proved to be true at all.
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And the Globe's Robinson says Rather is missing the larger point on the documents: They hadn't been proved to be true.
The farm minister said that if the accusations are proved to be true, it would be "fraud on a grand scale".
Labour's shadow energy secretary, Caroline Flint, said that if the reports proved to be true, they "suggest shocking behaviour in the energy market, that should be dealt with strongly".
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"We were given false assurances by Jeffrey Archer and as soon as we have had an allegation which has been substantiated and proved to be true we have acted quickly and correctly, " he told reporters outside Conservative Central Office.
One of them, as Stephanie Flanders has pointed out, may be that the UK has a political system that is more adept at making tough decisions in a crisis and then implementing them - and some would argue that's been proved to be true even when our first-past-the-post system delivers a coalition government.
But the same was true of Japan in the 1930s, and little comfort that proved to be.
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