Yacht rock was, in fact, pivotal in the etiolation of pop music in a time of cultural darkness, serving as a dialectical pole to progressive rock as well as to punk, postpunk and even proto-postpunk, spurring drastic retrenchments.

etiolate (adj) 1: (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light [syn: etiolate, etiolated, blanched] (v) 1: make weak by stunting the growth or development of 2: bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight 3: make pale or sickly – source: The Birth of the Uncool: Yacht Rock and Libidinal Subversion

But staff members look askance at the editor’s emoluments, and those of other senior managers, when their salaries are barely keeping up with inflation and, after staff reductions, mainly through voluntary redundancies, their workloads increasing.

emolument (n) 1: compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) – source: Alan Rusbridger: the quiet evangelist

Apple demanded a 30 percent vigorish on all single-copy sales through its iTunes store. Profit margins in single-copy sales are thinner than 30 percent; publishers were thus paying Apple to move issues.

vigorish (n) 1: an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest [syn: usury] 2: a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster [syn: rake-off] – source: Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps