http://www.wsj.com/articles/feds-considerable-time-policy-phrase-takes-focus-1418071999 Fed Aims to Signal Shift on Low Rates Central Bank Could Drop ‘Considerable Time’ Phrasing in Policy Statement ENLARGE Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, shown in October, is in position for the first time in a decade to start of a round of interest-rate increases. ASSOCIATED PRESS By JON HILSENRATH Updated Dec. 8, 2014 6:30 p.m. ET 9 COMMENTS Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering an important shift in tone at their policy meeting next week: dropping an assurance that short-term interest rates will stay near zero for a “considerable time” as they look more confidently toward rate increases around the middle of next year.