SHORT TAKES

Luncheon speeches at conferences usually go down with the ease of the rich desserts they accompany, and for the same reasons: All too often they're sweet, insubstantial, and none too provocative. But when Sunbeam Corp. CEO Albert J. Dunlap spoke in New York recently at the Conference Board's management conference on driving global growth, he came on more like a pineapple with the rind still on it.