Read the text below in order to answer questionBrazil's Central Bank Rate Vote Underscores Division   

        Two of the Brazilian central bank's nine-member board called

for a smaller interest rate cut last week than policy makers approved,

underscoring disagreement over the pace of a recovery in Brazil and its

effect on inflation.            The vote, the first show of

dissent since Henrique Meirelles became the bank's president, may signal

that the bank may be less inclined to lower the benchmark lending rate

in coming months after cutting it six times since June.       

    The board said in minutes of the meeting distributed today that its

vote to lower the overnight target rate to 17.5 percent from 19 percent

was aimed at giving a boost to an economy that suffered its biggest

back-to-back quarterly contractions in seven years between April and

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