But some powerful, far-reaching trends - like consumers' viewing their spending choices as political expression - may also help explain why a company can maintain its assiduously polished progressive reputation while also bitterly fighting unions.

Still, she was alarmed that police officers were offering advice on where to hang art, especially in New Haven, a college town with a progressive reputation.

Ashley's modernist typography and style influenced by cubism, futurism and The Bauhaus led to the agency's further success and progressive reputation during the 1920s and 1930s.

LEAD: Allyn Sielaff had a progressive reputation when he took over New York City's jails.

When asked if she thought she and Riegel had succeeded in living up to the "couple's groundbreaking and progressive" reputation, Sosnovska responded, "Yes, we succeeded to a certain extent.

And Bexley's other institutions of higher education, although sectarian in religious affiliation, have likely contributed to the city's increasingly progressive reputation.

A small school with a progressive reputation, Bard sits high on a bluff above the Hudson River in Annandale, commanding views that have scarcely changed since the days of the Hudson River painters.

This small but impressive gallery has been a launch pad for many artists over the years and has built up a steady, progressive reputation under the new directorship of Tim Eastop.

Oberlin students have a reputation for being notably liberal or progressive.