WordNet
n. fair treatment [syn: square deal]
Wikipedia
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman Administration, from 1945 to 1953. It offered new proposals to continue New Deal liberalism, but with the Conservative Coalition controlling Congress, only a few of its major initiatives became law and then only if they had considerable GOP support. As Richard Neustadt concludes, the most important proposals were aid to education, universal health insurance, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, and repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act. They were all debated at length, then voted down. Nevertheless, enough smaller and less controversial items passed that liberals could claim some success.
Usage examples of "fair deal".
For face they haggled and he settled for a tenth, 10 percent an incredibly fair deal both knowing that he could have had 30 or 40 percent for the same amount because by that time the Hag was desperate.
Briney, that's a touchstone for a fair deal that my father taught me: does it feel like a fair deal if it's turned the other way round, mirror image?
I need someone to protect against that and see that they are given a fair deal.
For face they haggled and he settled for a tenth, 10 percent-an incredibly fair deal-both knowing that he could have had 30 or 40 percent for the same amount because by that time the Hag was desperate.