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Laban
Hungarian modern-dance teacher, inventor of the Labanotation system of dance notation. After studying dance in Paris, he opened his Choreographic Institute in Zurich in 1915 and later founded branches in Italy, France, and central Europe. He worked in Germany 1919-37, and was ballet director of the Berlin State Opera 1930-34. In 1928 he published his method for recording all forms of human motion, which enabled choreographers to record the dancer's steps and other body movements, incl. their rhythm. In 1938 he joined his former pupil K. Jooss teaching dance in England, where he later formed the Art of Movement Studio. His system was further developed and maintained at centers in Essen (Germany) and New York.


labor
In economics, the general body of wage earners. In classical economics, labor is one of the three factors of production, along with capital and land. Labor can also be used to describe work performed, incl. any valuable service rendered by a human agent in the production of wealth, other than accumulating and providing capital. Labor is performed for the sake of its product or, in modern economic life, for the sake of a share of the aggregate product of the community's industry. The price per unit of time, or wage rate, commanded by a particular kind of labor in the market depends not only on the technical efficiency of the laborer but also on the demand for his services and on the supply of other workers. Other variables include the training, skill, and intelligence of workers and the social status, prospects for advancement, and relative difficulty of the work. All these factors make it impossible for economists to assign a standard value to labor performed. Instead, they often compare different uses of the available supply of labor with reference to the quantity and value of the product they yield.


Labov
U.S. linguist. Born in Rutherford, N.J., Labov began his graduate work in 1961 after a career as an industrial chemist, focusing on regional and class differences in English pronunciation on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and in New York City, and ways to assess phonetic change and variation quantitatively. Most of his later research dealt with the same issues in increasingly sophisticated ways, culminating in his monumental Principles of Linguistic Change (1994). The discovery that Amer. English pronunciation was becoming regionally more rather than less divergent countered popular belief and attracted attention outside linguistics.


land
In economics, the resource that encompasses the natural resources used in production. In classical economics, the three factors of production are land, labor and capital. Land was considered to be the "original and inexhaustible gift of nature." In modern economics, it is broadly defined to include all that nature provides, incl. minerals, forest products, and water and land resources. While many of these are renewable ...

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