Teacher:In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: the following year , a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and polled the people to determine the most popular.
Student:
a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals and polled the people to determine the most popular.