The company said it had discovered a "pattern of behavior," and the managers were also found to have put "their personal interests ahead of those of the company".
After discovering a pattern of dropped reservations at certain hotels, Travelocity hired a company in India to call the hotels ahead of customer stays to make sure they were prepared for the guests.
As at Diablo Canyon, fears of an earthquake near the Indian Point nuclear power facility, about 30 miles north of New York City, were stoked in 2008 when researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University discovered a pattern of small but active faults in the area, suggesting that earthquakes near the plant were more common than once thought.
But whoever drank from it would discover a glorious pattern of flowerlike dragons unfurling on the bottom, and held up to the light just so, the cup would glow like a lamp.
While trying to figure out how the reactor worked, physicist Alex Meshik and colleagues at Washington University in St .Louis, Missouri, discovered a strange pattern of xenon isotopes--byproducts of uranium fission--trapped in aluminum phosphate minerals around the reactor.
By comparing the amino acid composition of a comprehensive set of orthologous sequence pairs globally we discovered a distinct pattern of replacements, which may result in structurally important changes in the functional structure of proteins supporting cold adaptation of primary protein structures.
Mr. DiNapoli said his office had discovered "a troubling pattern of abuse" by the assemblyman.
Scientists from Dublin and Belfast have looked deep into Ireland's early history to discover a still-familiar pattern of migration: of stone age settlers with origins in the Fertile Crescent, and bronze age economic migrants who began a journey somewhere in eastern Europe.
It is common to discover a rhythmic pattern in a pile of stratified sedimentary rocks represented by a repetitive sequence of rock types.
