Original sentence: He was the designated leader of the Bush Administration's efforts to nationalize the cost of bad loans made by financial institutions, and the unsuccessful government efforts to avoid a severe economic slowdown.Paulson was widely criticized for some of his decisions in the 2008 global financial crisis.Time named Paulson as a runner-up for its 2008 Person of the Year, saying, with reference to the global financial crisis, "if there is a face to this financial debacle, it is now his..." before concluding he "is really bad at explaining why he made the choices he did" and that "given the ... realities he faced, there is no obviously better path [he] could have followed"
Edited sentence: In 2008, Time named Paulson as a runner-up for its Person of the Year, saying, with reference to the global financial crisis, "if there is a face to this financial debacle, it is now his"