Terry Gou's loyal deputy Tai holds an executives meeting every morning from 7 a.m. and delivers Gou's directions himself to ensure that what the boss wants, the boss gets.

Sharp's new president has Terry Gou's blessing -- and a tall order to fill- Nikkei Asian Review

TAIPEI Hon Hai Precision Industry Chairman Terry Gou has tapped…

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Environmentalists like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are fed up after years of battles over fuel efficiency rules. And Congress, as a whole, is suffering from acute bailout fatigue.
“I don’t want to raise expectations that that is going to be easy at all given the climate in the country,” Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, said after Thursday’s hearing before the banking committee, of which he is the chairman. “That’s a tall order.”

tall order

A goal that is hard to fulfill or achieve, as in Getting a thousand new subscribers is a tall order indeed. This expression uses tall in the sense of "impressively great" or "difficult." [c. 1900]