"fair starting point" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the basis for a discussion, agreement, contract, or other negotiation. For example, "We agreed on a salary of $70,000 as a fair starting point for negotiations."
"What I think all the players have bought into is that this is a fair starting point," Paul said.
That study has shown that the assessments are not sufficiently comparable to provide a fair starting point from which to measure pupil progress," a DfE spokesperson said.
It seems a fair starting point to suggest modern one-day cricket began in 1987 with the Benson & Hedges Challenge in Perth, with its weird America's Cup-themed shirts, gold watches, Ian Botham in full paunchy ringlet-tossing pomp, and the sense of watching the moustached buccaneers of some new world coming into view through the mists.
The current duty-free limits 200 cigarettes and a bottle of spirits would be a fair starting point.
They will not be a recent Harvard graduate seeking a job at Vanity Fair or a starting point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.
For this reason contractarians like Gauthier are able to argue for a fair and impartial starting point for bargaining that will lead to secure and stable agreements.
Share fairs can be a starting point in the creation of new networks that take on lives of their own beyond the share fair environment.
In contemporary normative contractarian theories, that is, theories that attempt to ground the legitimacy of government or theories that claim to derive a moral ought, the initial position represents the starting point for a fair, impartial agreement.
The starting point for the SRH question discussion was the WHO-recommended form 'How is your health in general: very good, good, fair, bad or very bad?' (1).
The estimates herein provide starting points for fair compensation of CHWs, so they may be further integrated into health systems faced with a health worker shortage.
