Productivity is the basic value criteria to measure the social progress.

生产力是衡量社会进步的基本价值标准。

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Although many companies announce they "plan" to buy back their shares, Fried filters out the noise and goes for companies actually doing the buybacks and then screens for stocks trading at low price-to-earnings ratios, low price-to-book ratios and which meet an overall "value" criteria.

FORBES: Buyback Buy List

The Volkswagen Passat won the 2012 Motor Trend Car of the Year award (which judges models on a variety of value and safety criteria), propelling it to sales of over 117, 000 that year alone.

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Valentina Musco Puleo, daughter of store co-owners Joe and Agata Musco, traveled to Italy to find producers whose olives and oil met her family's criteria for quality and value.

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