"Look at our hands; you can see that we do hard manual labor," Ms. Lam said, extending her calloused fingers. "our life depends on the weather and the waters."

“看看我们的手，就知道我们做的是辛苦的体力活了，”林女士一边说一边伸出长满老茧的手指。“我们是靠天和靠水吃饭。”

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Lam said she was instructed by a former babysitter who had looked after her children before becoming a factory owner.

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That may seem easy for a star who won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls, starting in 1991, but "there's still great uncertainty, " Mr. Lam said.

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Mr. Lam said that could indicate a decision by Apple not to buy memory from Samsung, the world's biggest supplier of flash memory chips, amid continuing patent litigation between Apple and the chip maker's parent.

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