Create Second (Duplicate) contact from First

I know this sounds like a minor problem, but it might solve some tedious behavior.
Does anyone know how, in Address Book, to create a contact from another contact so that all I have to change is the person's name and perhaps their phone numbers.
For example, if I'm working with Joe Smith at Ford and now I want to add Jane Jones, who also works at Ford, I want to keep most of the info the same and just vary the name, direct dial, email address, but keep the address, web site, main numbers all the same. You can't drag the address of one contact to another easily and populate the correct fields. Right now I have to fill in everything from scratch, which seems stupid because we have computers for that sort of thing.
BTW, this functionality exists in Entourage and Now Contact (which was smart enough to autofill if it saw you were adding another person at a certain company.)
What am I doing wrong?

Select an entry, press COMMAND-C to copy, then press COMMAND-V to paste.

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