This is not such a modest programme as it sounds.
But even as part of a more modest programme, it would be a good start.
Last year the agency came up with a far more modest programme concentrating on reform of the security services, boosting the judicial police, and building a jail.
Since the progressive Sultan Qaboos bumped his cranky, isolationist father off the throne in 1970 after oil was discovered, he has pursued a modest programme of modernisation.
But nuclear energy, as distinct from weapons, greatly interested Albert Speer, Hitler's armaments and war-production minister, who financed a modest programme.
On the face of it, Five's change of news provider is the most straightforward - our smallest terrestrial broadcaster is squeezing maximum value from its modest programme budget by tendering its news service and choosing the lowest bid.
Having abandoned a green-inspired policy of opposing almost all new road schemes in its first few years in power, the government now plans a modest programme of road-building.
Significant numbers of clinicians, counsellors and support staff are needed to implement even a modest programme, given the relative technical difficulty of the surgery compared with other prevention programmes such as immunization [ 33, 34].
